Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35790/supplement/5023. Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Buller Turner, The Rifle Brigade. On 27th October 1942, at El Aqqaqir (Kidney Ridge), Western Desert, Lieutenant-Colonel Turner was commanding a battalion of the Rifle Brigade. After overcoming a German position, the battalion fought off desperate counter-attacks by 90 tanks, destroying or immobilising more than 50 of them. During the action, one of the 6-pounder guns was left with only one officer and a sergeant, so Colonel Turner joined them as loader, and between them they destroyed another five tanks. Not until the last tank had been repulsed did he consent to having a wound in his head attended to.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35790/supplement/5023. Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Buller Turner, The Rifle Brigade. On 27th October 1942, at El Aqqaqir (Kidney Ridge), Western Desert, Lieutenant-Colonel Turner was commanding a battalion of the Rifle Brigade. After overcoming a German position, the battalion fought off desperate counter-attacks by 90 tanks, destroying or immobilising more than 50 of them. During the action, one of the 6-pounder guns was left with only one officer and a sergeant, so Colonel Turner joined them as loader, and between them they destroyed another five tanks. Not until the last tank had been repulsed did he consent to having a wound in his head attended to.