Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35729/supplement/4323. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, Commander, The South Saskatchewan Regiment, Canadian Infantry Corps. On 19th August 1942 at Dieppe, France, Lieutenant-Colonel Merritt's unit had to advance across a bridge swept by very heavy machine-gun, mortar and artillery fire. The first parties had mostly been destroyed but the colonel rushed forward and personally led the survivors of at least four parties, in turn, across the bridge, and then led them in successful attacks on German pill-boxes. Although twice wounded he continued to direct the unit's operations and having collected Bren and tommy guns, prepared a defensive position to cover the withdrawal from the beach. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37376/supplement/5927.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35729/supplement/4323. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, Commander, The South Saskatchewan Regiment, Canadian Infantry Corps. On 19th August 1942 at Dieppe, France, Lieutenant-Colonel Merritt's unit had to advance across a bridge swept by very heavy machine-gun, mortar and artillery fire. The first parties had mostly been destroyed but the colonel rushed forward and personally led the survivors of at least four parties, in turn, across the bridge, and then led them in successful attacks on German pill-boxes. Although twice wounded he continued to direct the unit's operations and having collected Bren and tommy guns, prepared a defensive position to cover the withdrawal from the beach. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37376/supplement/5927.