Acton, Abraham

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Cemetery: Le Touret Memorial

Country: France

Area: Pas De Calais

Rank: Private

Force: Army

Official Number: 10694

Unit: B Coy. 2nd Bn. Border Regiment.

Country of Service: British

Details: V C 16th May 1915. Age 21. Son of Robert and Elizabeth Eleanor Acton of 4 Regent Square Senhouse St. Whitehaven Cumberland. Panel 19 and 20. An extract from "The London Gazette dated 18th Feb., 1915, records the following:-For conspicuous bravery on the 21st December at Rouges-Bancs in voluntarily going from his trench and rescuing a wounded man who had been lying exposed against the enemy's trenches for 75 hours; and on the same day again leaving his trench voluntarily under heavy fire to bring into cover another wounded man. He was under fire for 60 minutes whilst conveying the wounded men into safety".

Photograph by David Milborrow

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