Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37173/supplement/3599. No. 4080657 Corporal Edward Thomas Chapman, 3rd Battalion, The Monmouthshire Regiment. On 2nd April 1945, near the Dortmund-Ems canal, Germany, Corporal Chapman's section came under heavy machine-gun fire, causing many casualties. He ordered his men to take cover and went forward alone with a Bren gun, mowing down the enemy at point-blank range, forcing them to retire. His section isolated, Corporal Chapman again halted the enemy advances with his Bren gun, at one time firing it over his shoulder, to cover those bringing him ammunition. He then carried in his company commander who was lying wounded, but on his way back the officer was killed and Corporal Chapman wounded.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37173/supplement/3599. No. 4080657 Corporal Edward Thomas Chapman, 3rd Battalion, The Monmouthshire Regiment. On 2nd April 1945, near the Dortmund-Ems canal, Germany, Corporal Chapman's section came under heavy machine-gun fire, causing many casualties. He ordered his men to take cover and went forward alone with a Bren gun, mowing down the enemy at point-blank range, forcing them to retire. His section isolated, Corporal Chapman again halted the enemy advances with his Bren gun, at one time firing it over his shoulder, to cover those bringing him ammunition. He then carried in his company commander who was lying wounded, but on his way back the officer was killed and Corporal Chapman wounded.