Lieutenant Clifford Sadlier, 51st Battalion Australian Imperial Forces, was awarded the V.C. for bravery at Bois L'Abbe, Villers-Brettoneux during a German attack involving gas and German tanks, 24th - 25th April 1918. Citation: For conspicuous bravery during a counter-attack by his battalion on strong enemy positions. Lt Sadlier’s platoon, which was on the left of the battalion, had to advance through a wood where a strong enemy machine-gun post caused casualties and prevented the platoon from advancing. Although himself wounded, he at once collected his bombing section, led them against the machine-guns, and succeeded in killing the crews and capturing two of the guns. By this time Lt Sadlier’s party were all casualties, and he alone attacked a third enemy machine-gun with his revolver, killing the crew of four and taking the gun. In doing so he was again wounded. The very gallant conduct of this officer was the means of clearing the flank, and allowing the battalion to move forward, thereby saving a most critical situation. His coolness and utter disregard of danger inspired all. (London Gazette: 11th July 1918.)The attached account of his actions was written by James Price Lloyd of the Welsh Regiment, who served with Military Intelligence. After the war, the government to destroyed all the archives relating to this propaganda (section MI 7b (1)). They were regarded as being too sensitive to risk being made public. Remarkably these documents have survived in the personal records of Captain Lloyd. Many of these papers are officially stamped, and one can trace the development of many individual articles from the notes based on an idea, to the pencil draft which is then followed by the hand-written submission and the typescript. The archive Tales of the VC comprises 94 individual accounts of the heroism that earned the highest award for valour, the Victoria Cross. These are recounted deferentially and economically, yet they still manage to move the reader. Date stamp: 5 September 1918. || Article with annotations.

This a list of duties given to individual soldiers in the supply corp.

monument of the Belgian Soldiers of WWI who died in France, where also Cyriel Camiel Lesage has been buried