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Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett VC, was born 3 January 1892 in Mt Eden Auckland and died 9 January 1983 in Stanley Bay, Auckland. He was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the first New Zealander to be awarded the VC in the First World War. The citation for Bassett’s Victoria Cross: No. 4/515 Corporal Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett, New Zealand Divisional Signal Company. For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on the Chunuk Bair ridge in the Gallipoli Peninsula on 7th August, 1915. After the New Zealand Infantry Brigade had attacked and established itself on the ridge, Corporal Bassett, in full daylight and under a continuous and heavy fire, succeeded in laying a telephone line from the old position to the new one on Chunuk Bair. He has subsequently been brought to notice for further excellent and most gallant work connected with the repair of telephone lines by day and night under heavy fire. —The London Gazette, No. 29238, 15 October 1915 Description attached to his Great War Medal winner photograph: Sergeant (later Captain) Bassett was the first New Zealander to win the Victoria Cross in the present war. The award was for splendid bravery and devotion to duty during the famous attack on Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli. Bassett's duty was to establish and maintain communications at all costs. This he did, repeatedly exposing himself upon the shell-swept slopes in full daylight, and working amid a hail of bullets. Captain Wallingford reported of him "It was only possible to give Bassett one Victoria Cross, but he won it a dozen times over. Archives New Zealand Reference: AALZ 25044 F721 (R24184878) (Great War Medal Winner Photograph) Digitised Personnel Files for Cyril Bassett: AAAL 18806 W478 D.2/6855 (R23523695) AABK 18806 W5602 (R23513639) For updates on our On This Day series and news from Archives New Zealand, follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/ArchivesNZ Material from Archives New Zealand |
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