Gazette Information: Gazette Issue 29765, Victoria Cross,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29765/supplements/9418. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- Temporary Lieutenant Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson, late North Lancashire Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery. On 5 July 1916 at Boiselle, France, during an attack, when a party of another unit was retiring without their machine-gun, Lieutenant Wilkinson rushed forward and, with two of his men, got the gun into action, and held up the enemy till they were relieved. Later, when the advance was checked during a bombing attack, he forced his way forward and found four or five men of different units stopped by a solid block of earth, over which the enemy was throwing bombs. With great pluck and promptness he mounted a machine-gun on the top of the parapet and dispersed the enemy bombers. Subsequently he made two most gallant attempts to bring in a wounded man, but the second attempt he was shot through the heart just before reaching the man. Throughout the day he set a magnificent example of courage and self-sacrifice.
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Gazette Information: Gazette Issue 29765, Victoria Cross,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29765/supplements/9418. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- Temporary Lieutenant Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson, late North Lancashire Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery. On 5 July 1916 at Boiselle, France, during an attack, when a party of another unit was retiring without their machine-gun, Lieutenant Wilkinson rushed forward and, with two of his men, got the gun into action, and held up the enemy till they were relieved. Later, when the advance was checked during a bombing attack, he forced his way forward and found four or five men of different units stopped by a solid block of earth, over which the enemy was throwing bombs. With great pluck and promptness he mounted a machine-gun on the top of the parapet and dispersed the enemy bombers. Subsequently he made two most gallant attempts to bring in a wounded man, but the second attempt he was shot through the heart just before reaching the man. Throughout the day he set a magnificent example of courage and self-sacrifice.