Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36129/pages/3625. Temporary Captain The Lord Charles Anthony Lyell (57781), 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. During the period 22nd/27th April 1943 near Dj Bou Arada, Tunisia, Captain Lord Lyell's outstanding leadership and gallantry enabled his company to take its objective. On 27th April accompanied by a sergeant, a lance-corporal and two guardsmen, he led an attack on an enemy post consisting of an 88mm gun and a heavy machine-gun in two separate pits.. He destroyed the crew of the machine-gun with a hand grenade and then, three of the party having become casualties, and with the lance-corporal to give covering fire he leapt into the second pit, killing several of the crew before being overwhelmed and killed. Both the guns had been silenced.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36129/pages/3625. Temporary Captain The Lord Charles Anthony Lyell (57781), 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. During the period 22nd/27th April 1943 near Dj Bou Arada, Tunisia, Captain Lord Lyell's outstanding leadership and gallantry enabled his company to take its objective. On 27th April accompanied by a sergeant, a lance-corporal and two guardsmen, he led an attack on an enemy post consisting of an 88mm gun and a heavy machine-gun in two separate pits.. He destroyed the crew of the machine-gun with a hand grenade and then, three of the party having become casualties, and with the lance-corporal to give covering fire he leapt into the second pit, killing several of the crew before being overwhelmed and killed. Both the guns had been silenced.