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Sgt. James Albert Woolnough MM.
British Army Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Earlsfield
My father Sgt James Woolnough won the Military Medal at Anzio in 1944.
Having lost their C O and pinned down by persistent German machine gun crossfire my father's platoon were unable to reach supplies.
My father, leading the platoon, raced forward with a bayonet charge and succeeded in getting through though being badly wounded in the process.