Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,; https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35448/supplement/645. Acting Captain Philip John Gardner, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. On 23rd November 1941 at Tobruk, Libya, Captain Gardner took two tanks to the rescue of two armoured cars of the King's Dragoon Guards, which were out of action and under heavy attack. Whilst one tank gave covering fire the captain dismounted from the other , hitched a tow rope to one of the cars, then lifted into it an officer, both of whose legs had been blown off. The tow rope broke, so Captain Gardner returned to the armoured car, but was immediately wounded in the arm and leg. Despite this he managed to transfer the wounded man to the second tank and returned to British lines through intense shell-fire. MILITARY CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35316/supplement/6086.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,; https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35448/supplement/645. Acting Captain Philip John Gardner, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. On 23rd November 1941 at Tobruk, Libya, Captain Gardner took two tanks to the rescue of two armoured cars of the King's Dragoon Guards, which were out of action and under heavy attack. Whilst one tank gave covering fire the captain dismounted from the other , hitched a tow rope to one of the cars, then lifted into it an officer, both of whose legs had been blown off. The tow rope broke, so Captain Gardner returned to the armoured car, but was immediately wounded in the arm and leg. Despite this he managed to transfer the wounded man to the second tank and returned to British lines through intense shell-fire. MILITARY CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35316/supplement/6086.