Jorgan Christian Jensen ["Tales of the V.C."], item 8

• January 24, 2018 00:16:58 Thomas A. Lingner

  TALES OF THE V.C.

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  No. 2389 PTE. JORGAN CHRISTIAN JENSEN.

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    Private Jensen of the Australian Imperial Force,

  was awarded the Victoria Cross for the most conspicuous

  bravery and initiative during the course of an attack upon a 

  German position in France. He is a British subject by 

  naturalization, but was born in Denmark, and is probably the

  first Dane to win the V.C. He gave a practical demonstration of

  his sympathies with the Entente cause by enlisting in an

  Australian Regiment.

    His battalion took part in a British advance in 

  April 1917, and the company to which Pte. Jensen was attached 

  was in the second line of attack. The first wave met with a 

  stout resistance from the German defenders, and Pte. Jensen,

  growing impatient at the delay, dashed forward boldly without 

  waiting for the rest of the line.

    He reached and passed through the first wave,

  shouting at the same time to his comrades to come on.

    Followed by four men he rushed across the strip of

  open ground which separated him from the enemy, who kept up

  a continuous fire upon him and his small band. When still some

  distance away he threw a bomb, which fell on the parapet of the

  German trench. Taking advantage of the confusion caused among 

  the enemy by the explosion, he succeeded in reaching a small

  trench close by, and beckoned to the others to follow him.

  Two of his small party had been wounded, and were practically 

  out of action, but the survivors made up in courage for what

  they lacked in numbers. There were two bodies of Germans in front

  of them, about fifty men in all, and they had a machine gun.

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