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| PERSONALIA |
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Durrant, Thomas Frank |
| Date of birth: | October 17th, 1918 (Green Street Green, Kent, Great Britain)
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March 29th, 1942 (St.Nazaire, France)
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British |
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VICTORIA CROSS (VC)
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Rank:
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Sergeant
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Unit:
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Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army
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Awarded on:
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October 29th, 1946
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Awarded for:
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Operation Chariot
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Action:
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Sergeant Durrant stood during an attack on St. Nazaire in France on March 27, 1942 behind a Lewis machine gun on high speed motorboat 36. Although they lay under violently hostile fire and without cover Durrant remained firing. Then the attack had been blown off. Those who had survived this attack were taken prison, but Durrant died the next day to its wounds that he incurred during this action.
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Details:
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Sergeant Durrant’s Victoria Cross is publicly displayed at the Royal Engineers Museum in Chatham, Great Britain.
Thomas Frank Durrant is buried at the Escoublac-la-Baule War Cemetery, France.
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