Person    | Male  Born 12/4/1879  Died 18/4/1918

Lance corporal John Sayer, VC

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Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

John William Sayer VC. Born Ilford, Essex. Served in the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment.

On 21 March 1918 at Le Verguier, France, Lance Corporal Sayer held the flank of a small isolated post for two hours. Owing to mist the enemy approached from both sides to within 30 yards before being discovered, but the lance corporal, on his own initiative without assistance, beat off a succession of attacks, inflicting heavy losses. During the whole time he was exposed to heavy fire but his contempt of danger and skill in the use of his fire-arms enabled the post to hold out until nearly all the garrison had been killed and he himself wounded and captured. He died as a result of wounds four weeks later, in France.

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