1. The others were Sub Lieutenant Wilfred Malleson, RN; Brigadier-General Clifford Coffin; Brigadier-General Bernard Freyberg; Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Evans, Black Watch attached to Lincolnshire Regiment; Sergeant Fred Greaves, Sherwood Foresters; Sergeant Alfred Knight, London Rifle Bridge; Private Albert Halton, Royal Lancaster Regiment. 15805 Sergeant A. Loosemore’s citation read: ‘For most conspicuous bravery and initiative during the attack on a strongly held enemy position. His platoon having been checked by heavy machine-gun fire, he crawled through partially cut wire dragging his Lewis gun after him and single-handed dealt with a strong party of the enemy, killing about twenty of them, and thus covering the consolidation of the position taken up by his platoon. Immediately afterwards his Lewis gun was blown up by a bomb, and three of the enemy rushed for him, but he shot them all with his revolver. Later, he shot several enemy snipers, exposing himself to heavy fire each time. On returning to the original post he also brought back a wounded comrade under heavy fire at the risk of his life. He displayed throughout an utter disregard of danger.’

1. Only forty-four of its members were ever caught by the German authorities, of whom only two were shot. The organization was reconstituted under the code-name ‘Clarence’ under the same director, Walthère Dewé, in 1939, with many of its original members as well as a new generation of young patriots, and did valuable service throughout the Second World War. M. Dewé died in 1971.