Picture No | 10219829 |
Date | 1944 |
Description | Lance-Sergeant John D. Baskeyfield VC (1922-44). |
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Lance-Sergeant John Baskeyfield of the South Staffordshire Regiment, First Airborne Division, pictured c.1943. Baskeyfield won the Victoria Cross posthumously in 1944 for his actions in charge of two six-pound guns at Oosterbeek, near Arnhem, during Operation 'Market Garden', September 1944.
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Source | Illustrated London News 1944, page 638 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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