Alfred Shout
✓ Source-basedfallingNew Zealand-born Australian soldier (1882-1915)
New ZealandLived 1881 to 1915 · aged 34Alfred John Shout, was a New Zealand-born soldier and an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces.
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Alfred Shout c. 1912
Shout (right) with Captain Albert Mcguire (left) and Major Blair Swannell (centre) while training in the Egyptian desert, March 1915. All three men would be killed at Gallipoli.
Shout (centre) with two other officers aboard the hospital ship Gascon in May 1915. Shout was recovering from a gunshot wound to his arm.
Alfred Shout's medals at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra
A smiling Second Lieutenant Alfred Shout in Egypt, 1915Awards 1
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Alfred John Shout, was a New Zealand-born soldier and an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces. Shout was posthumously awarded the VC for his actions at Lone Pine in August 1915, during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War. After Ottoman forces had counterattacked and seized a large stretch of the Australians' front line, Shout gathered a small party of men and charged down one trench throwing bombs. He killed eight Turkish soldiers, and managed to clear others to retake the trench. In a similar action later that day, and supported by another officer, he recaptured further ground amid heavy fighting. In the final push forward, Shout simultaneously lit three bombs to lob at the enemy. He successfully threw two, but just as the third left his hand it detonated. Shout was severely wounded and died two days later.
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