Company Sergeant Major Frederick Barter
VC
1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Company Sergeant Major Barter won this honour on 16th May 1915, at Festubert. Having gained the first line of enemy trenches, he called for volunteers, and with 8 gallant men attacked the German position with bombs, capturing 3 officers, 102 men and about 500 yards of enemy trenches. Later he found and cut 11 of the enemy's mine leads.