Herbert Westmacott
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Herbert Westmacott
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Captain Herbert Richard Westmacott was a British Army officer who became the first person to be awarded a posthumous Military Cross. As an officer of the Grenadier Guards on extra regimental employment to the Special Air Service (SAS), he died in an encounter with the Provisional Irish Republican Army. He was in command of an eight-man plainclothes SAS patrol that had been alerted by the Royal Ulster Constabulary that IRA gunmen had taken over a house on Antrim Road, Belfast. A car carrying thre
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British Army officer and first posthumous recipient of the Military Cross
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2023-11-25T20:35:52Z
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