Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36646/supplements/3695. No. 5568932 Sergeant Maurice Albert Windham Rogers, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) (Plaistow). On 3rd June 1944 at Anzio, Italy, a carrier platoon was held up by barbed wire and intense machine-gun fire only 70 yards from the objective. Sergeant Rogers, with his Thompson machine-gun, crashed through the wire, ran across a mine-field beyond, and accounted for two of the enemy posts. This action so inspired his platoon, now 100 yards behind, that they advanced to the assault, but before they could reach the sergeant he had been wounded in the leg. Undaunted, he continued to advance until he was shot and killed at point blank range. MILITARY MEDAL,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36251/supplements/5063.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36646/supplements/3695. No. 5568932 Sergeant Maurice Albert Windham Rogers, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) (Plaistow). On 3rd June 1944 at Anzio, Italy, a carrier platoon was held up by barbed wire and intense machine-gun fire only 70 yards from the objective. Sergeant Rogers, with his Thompson machine-gun, crashed through the wire, ran across a mine-field beyond, and accounted for two of the enemy posts. This action so inspired his platoon, now 100 yards behind, that they advanced to the assault, but before they could reach the sergeant he had been wounded in the leg. Undaunted, he continued to advance until he was shot and killed at point blank range. MILITARY MEDAL,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36251/supplements/5063.