Hawk
24th Jul 2006, 23:54
Medals including the Victoria Cross sold by his family (24/07/06) at auction for $AU 1.2million. Captain Alfred Shout, 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade, 1st Division, AIF.
(9th August 1915, at Lone Pine Trenches, Gallipoli Peninsula (Posthumous Award).
"CITATION: For most conspicuous bravery at Lone Pine Trenches, in the Gallipoli Peninsula. On the morning of 9th August, 1915, with a small party, Captain Shout charged down trenches strongly occupied by the enemy and personally threw four bombs among them, killing eight and routing the remainder. In the afternoon of the same day, from the position gained in the morning, he captured a further length of trench under similar conditions and continued personally to bomb the enemy at close range, under very heavy fire, until he was severely wounded, losing his right hand and left eye.
This most gallant officer has since succumbed to his injuries".
(London Gazette: 15th October 1915.)
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-vc/shout-vc.htm
(9th August 1915, at Lone Pine Trenches, Gallipoli Peninsula (Posthumous Award).
"CITATION: For most conspicuous bravery at Lone Pine Trenches, in the Gallipoli Peninsula. On the morning of 9th August, 1915, with a small party, Captain Shout charged down trenches strongly occupied by the enemy and personally threw four bombs among them, killing eight and routing the remainder. In the afternoon of the same day, from the position gained in the morning, he captured a further length of trench under similar conditions and continued personally to bomb the enemy at close range, under very heavy fire, until he was severely wounded, losing his right hand and left eye.
This most gallant officer has since succumbed to his injuries".
(London Gazette: 15th October 1915.)
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-vc/shout-vc.htm