Australian Victoria Cross Recipient
Lieutenant Percy Valentine Storkey
Unit
19th Battalion
Born
9 September 1891 at Napier, New Zealand
Date of action
7 April 1918
Place
Hangard Wood, France
Details
During an engagement Storkey noticed that a large enemy party, about eighty to a hundred strong and armed with several machine guns, was holding up the advance of troops on the right. He was joined by another officer and four men, and under his leadership this party of twelve charged the enemy position with bayonets fixed. They drove the much larger enemy force out, killing or wounding thirty, and capturing three officers, fifty men and a machine gun.
Died
3 October 1969
Buried or Commemorated
Book of Remembrance, SW Middlesex Crematorium, Hanworth, England
Current location of the VC
Queen Elizabeth II Army Museum, Waioru, New Zealand