Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29802, VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/29802/supplement/10394. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- Lieutenant John Vincent Holland, Leinster Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery. On 3rd September 1916 at Guillemont, France, during a heavy engagement, when, not content with bombing hostile dug-outs within the objective, he fearlessly led his bombers through our own artillery barrage and cleared a great part of the village in front. He started out with 26 bombers and finished up with only five, after capturing some fifty prisoners. By this very gallant action he undoubtedly broke the spirit of the enemy, and thus saved us many casualties when the battalion made a further advance. He was far from well at the time, and later had to go to hospital.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29802, VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/29802/supplement/10394. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- Lieutenant John Vincent Holland, Leinster Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery. On 3rd September 1916 at Guillemont, France, during a heavy engagement, when, not content with bombing hostile dug-outs within the objective, he fearlessly led his bombers through our own artillery barrage and cleared a great part of the village in front. He started out with 26 bombers and finished up with only five, after capturing some fifty prisoners. By this very gallant action he undoubtedly broke the spirit of the enemy, and thus saved us many casualties when the battalion made a further advance. He was far from well at the time, and later had to go to hospital.