Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Second-Lieutenant

Unit:

171th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, 59th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment R.A., 150th Infantry Brigade, 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division, British Army

Awarded on:

May 12th, 1942

Citation:
"This officer was in command of a Troop of A/A guns during the operations against the Martuba aerodrome on the 21st March, 1942. He continually took the place of members of his gun teams who were wounded, directing fire, laying and loading guns himself.
His Troop was responsible for shooting down one enemy aeroplane and damaging several others. Later when ammuntion was running short he personally went round with ammunition lorries and distributed it. Three successive lorries which he was in were set on fire by enemy air attack, but he was quite undaunted and successfully managed to unload the majority of the ammunition, though rounds which had caught alight were exploding around him in all directions

Second-Lieutenant Harris was entirely responsible for saving many valuable rounds of ammunition for use against the enemy."

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