Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29371, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29371/supplements/11449. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned, in recognition of their most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in the field:- No. 12087 Corporal James Dalgleish Pollock, 5th Battalion, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. For most conspicuous bravery near the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France on 27th September 1915. At about 12 noon, when the enemy's bombers in superior numbers were successfully working up the “Little Willie” trench towards Hohenzollern Redoubt, Corporal Pollock, after obtaining permission, got out of the trench alone, walked along the top edge with the utmost coolness and disregard of danger and compelled the enemy's bombers to retire by bombing them from above. He was under heavy machine-gun fire the whole time, but continued to hold up the progress of the Germans for an hour, when he was at length wounded.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29371, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29371/supplements/11449. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned, in recognition of their most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in the field:- No. 12087 Corporal James Dalgleish Pollock, 5th Battalion, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. For most conspicuous bravery near the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France on 27th September 1915. At about 12 noon, when the enemy's bombers in superior numbers were successfully working up the “Little Willie” trench towards Hohenzollern Redoubt, Corporal Pollock, after obtaining permission, got out of the trench alone, walked along the top edge with the utmost coolness and disregard of danger and compelled the enemy's bombers to retire by bombing them from above. He was under heavy machine-gun fire the whole time, but continued to hold up the progress of the Germans for an hour, when he was at length wounded.