Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37551/supplements/2119. No. 2722614 Guardsman Edward Colquhoun Charlton, 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards. On 21st April 1945 at Wistedt, Germany, Guardsman Charlton was a co-driver of one tank of a troop which, with a platoon of infantry, captured the village. When shortly afterwards, all the tanks were hit in a fierce enemy attack, and the infantry were in danger of being over-run, Guardsman Charlton, on his own initiative, seized a Browning and advanced firing from the hip, inflicting such heavy casualties that the enemy were halted. Although wounded in the left arm the guardsman mounted his gun on a fence and continued firing even when wounded again. He died later, but his gallantry had saved a desperate situation.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37551/supplements/2119. No. 2722614 Guardsman Edward Colquhoun Charlton, 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards. On 21st April 1945 at Wistedt, Germany, Guardsman Charlton was a co-driver of one tank of a troop which, with a platoon of infantry, captured the village. When shortly afterwards, all the tanks were hit in a fierce enemy attack, and the infantry were in danger of being over-run, Guardsman Charlton, on his own initiative, seized a Browning and advanced firing from the hip, inflicting such heavy casualties that the enemy were halted. Although wounded in the left arm the guardsman mounted his gun on a fence and continued firing even when wounded again. He died later, but his gallantry had saved a desperate situation.