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The Regiment's VC Holders | |||||||
| Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment (19th Foot) The North York Militia, The North York Local Militia & North York Rifle Volunteers | |||||||||
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On 20/21 March 1943 at the Mareth Line, Tunisia, Lieutenant Colonel Seagrim's courage and leadership led directly to the capture of an important objective. When it appeared that the attack on the position would fail owing to the intensity of the enemy fire, he placed himself at the head of his battalion and led them forward. He personally helped to place a scaling ladder over an anti-tank ditch and was the first across. Leading an attack on two machine-gun posts, he accounted for twenty of the enemy and when a counter-attack was launched next day he moved from post to post quite unperturbed, until it was defeated.
Lieutenat Colonel Seagrim was killed in action shortly afterwards, on 6 April 1943. |
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Derek Anthony Seagrim was born in Bournemouth on 24th September 1903,
the third of five sons of the Reverend Charles Paulet Seagrim and Annabel
Emma Seagrim. His father had been a missionary in Basutoland and
Cape Colony before returning to Hamble near Southampton. For a
short time he was a minister at Dinant in Britanny, before becoming Rector
of Whissonsett-with-Horningtoft in Norfolk. where all five boys were brought
up. Derek was educated at King Edward VI School, Norwich. |
