Private Patrick Joseph Bugden VC

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Private Patrick Joseph Bugden VC

c. 1916. Private (Pte) Patrick Joseph Bugden VC, 31st Battalion.

Pte Bugden was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for "most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty when on two occasions our advance was temporarily held up by strongly defended `pillboxes'" on 26 - 28 September 1917 at Polygon Wood, near Ypres, Belgium.

Pte Bugden, under heavy machine gun fire, led small parties to attack the machine guns and captured the garrison. On another occasion he single handedly rescued a fellow soldier who had been taken prisoner.

On five other occasions he rescued wounded men under heavy shell and machine gun fire. It was on the fifth occasion that Pte Bugden was killed in September 1917. (Donor R. Arman)


Victoria Cross	British War Medal	Victory Medal

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