Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29695, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29695/supplements/7743. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned for most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty. Captain John Leslie Green, late Royal Army Medical Corps. For most conspicuous devotion to duty. On 1st July 1916 at Foncquevillers, France, Captain Green, although himself wounded, he went to the assistance of an officer who had been wounded and was hung up on the enemy's wire entanglements, and succeeded in dragging him to a shell hole, where he dressed his wounds, notwithstanding that bombs and rifle grenades were thrown at him the whole time. Captain Green then endeavoured to bring the wounded officer into safe cover, and had nearly succeeded in doing so when he was himself killed.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29695, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29695/supplements/7743. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned for most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty. Captain John Leslie Green, late Royal Army Medical Corps. For most conspicuous devotion to duty. On 1st July 1916 at Foncquevillers, France, Captain Green, although himself wounded, he went to the assistance of an officer who had been wounded and was hung up on the enemy's wire entanglements, and succeeded in dragging him to a shell hole, where he dressed his wounds, notwithstanding that bombs and rifle grenades were thrown at him the whole time. Captain Green then endeavoured to bring the wounded officer into safe cover, and had nearly succeeded in doing so when he was himself killed.