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Kingsbury, Bruce Steel |
| Date of birth: | January 8th, 1918 (Armadale, Melbourne, Australia)
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| Date of death: |
August 29th, 1942 (Isurava, New Guinea)
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Australian |
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VICTORIA CROSS (VC)
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Rank:
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Private
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Unit:
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2/14th. Battalion, Australian Military Forces
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Awarded on:
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November 20th, 1943
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Action:
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Private Kingsbury had volunteered for a daring action on 29 August 1942 near Isurava, New Guinea. The enemy troops were outflanking the allied troops on their right flank and were forming a serious thread to the rest of the battalion and the nearby headquarters. The meaning of this daring action was to perform a counter-attack against the enemy troops. Private Kingsbury was one of the first men to storm forwards and he inflicted many enemy casualties while he was firing his Bren gun. The last thing they saw of him was that he was shot and killed by an enemy sniper. Partly thanks to his bravery the allies were able to reposition and so the company and the headquarters were saved.
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Details:
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Private Kingsbury’s Victoria Cross is publicly displayed at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia.
The decorations that were received by Private Kingsbury formed a private collection for a long time. They were purchased on an auction by the The Victorian Branch of the Returned Servicemen’s for $ 158.000 and donated to the Australian War Museum on 9 November 1998.
Bruce Steel Kingsbury is buried at the Port Morseby War Cemetery,
Papua, New Guinea.
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