Derrick, Thomas Currie (Sergeant, VC, DCM, 2/48th Bn)

Places	Africa: North Africa, Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), El Alamein Area, Tel el Eisa Middle East Oceania: New Guinea1 Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen, Sattelberg Area
Accession Number	PR84/162
Collection type	Private Record
Record type	Collection
Measurement	1 wallet: 1 cm
Object type	Papers
Maker	Derrick, Thomas Currie
Date made	1942-1943
Access	Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room.	AWM315 749/094/033
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain
Copying Provisions	Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required.

Description

Citation for the award of the DCM following action at Tel El Eisa, July 1942; and later citation for the VC awarded to Sgt Derrick, 2/48 Battalion, following action at Satelberg, November 1943. Also included is the envelope in which they came.