London, July 20.
Initiative and leadership "during operations in the Middle East are acknowledged in a list of awards for gallantry to officers and men of the Royal Armoured Corps.
A bar to the Military Cross has been awarded Lieutenant Delme Seymour-Evans whose leadership of 8 "squadron of his regiment was largely responsible for the capture of a Tort without casualties to his men, Following a long advance over open ground, 12 enemy" light tanks and four guns were destroyed and the infantry laid down their arms.
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