Australian Victoria Cross Recipient
Lieutenant George Mawby (Morby) Ingram
Unit
24th Battalion
Born
18 March 1889 at Bendigo, Victoria
Date of action
5 October 1918
Place
Montbrehain, near Peronne, France
Details
Early on the 5th, at about 6am, the advance began and it was not long before strong points and machine gun nests were encountered. B Company, of which Ingram was a member, had a difficult advance hampered by snipers and machine-gun fire. Ingram led his platoon against one strong point and the platoon succeeded, after a fierce fight, in capturing nine machine guns and killing forty-two enemy. When his company commander was wounded Ingram organised and led a charge against an old quarry which was defended by forty machine guns and over a hundred men. He alone rushed the first post and shot six enemy and captured a machine gun. On two subsequent occasions he displayed great dash and resourcefulness in capturing enemy posts, inflicting many casualties and taking sixty-two prisoners. On the last assault he captured overt thirty Germans in a cellar after shooting the gunner who had been firing through the cellar ventilator.
Died
1 July 1961
Buried or Commemorated
Methodist section of Frankston Cemetery, Victoria
Current location of the VC
Privately held