Claud Raymond
Lieutenant, Corps of Royal Engineers
- Register No.
- 1025 (Alf's numbering, from The Register of the Victoria Cross, 1997)
- Rank
- Lieutenant all Lieutenants →
- Unit
- Corps of Royal Engineers all Corps of Royal Engineers VCs →
- Date of action
- 21 March 1945 on this day → all of 1945 →
- Conflict / campaign
- Second World War
- London Gazette
- the 28 Memorial Rental and run in the Royal
- Born
- 2nd October 1923 at Mottistone, Isle of Wight
- Award
- Posthumous all posthumous VCs →
- Memorial / grave
- at Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma and in the Royal Engineers Museum at Rochester, Kent digest of Citation reads one second in command a reconnaissance patrol on 21st March 1945 at Telecom Burma and acting in conjunction with a large ditch and these have a special force they were fired on by strongly entrenched enemy detachment Kent
Digest of citation
Whilst second in command of a reconnaissance patrol on 21st March 1945, at Talaku, Burma, and acting in conjunction with a larger detachment of a special force, they were fired upon by a strongly entrenched enemy detachment on the jungle slopes. Lieutenant Raymond immediately charged in the direction of the fire, being wounded in the right shoulder as he began to climb the hill. Ignoring his wound, and firing his rifle from the hip, he advanced up the hill. He had moved but a few yards, when a grenade, thrown by Japanese soldier, burst his face, severely wounding him. Getting to his feet, he continued, in spite of his loss of blood, to lead his section under intense fire. Hit a third time in the wrist, shattering it, he, unwavering, carried on into the enemy position, and was personally responsible for killing two Japanese and wounding a third. Lieutenant Raymond refused all offers of treatment, until several of those wounded, of his section, had been attended to. He died, the following day, from his wounds
From Alf Askin's research notes
Reproduced as Alf wrote it, c. 2000–2005. Spelling and abbreviations are his own.
RAYMOND, Claud. (reg No. 1025).
Lieutenant. Corps of Royal Engineers.
London Gazetted on the 28 Memorial Rental and run in the Royal at Russia sower th June 1945.
Born on 2nd October 1923 at Mottistone, Isle of Wight.
Died of his wounds on 22nd March 1945 at Talaku, Burma, aged 21.
Memorial on grave at Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma and in the Royal Engineers Museum at Rochester, Kent digest of Citation reads one second in command a reconnaissance patrol on 21st March 1945 at Telecom Burma and acting in conjunction with a large ditch and these have a special force they were fired on by strongly entrenched enemy detachment Kent .
Digest of Citation reads: Whilst second in command of a reconnaissance patrol on 21st March 1945, at Talaku, Burma, and acting in conjunction with a larger detachment of a special force, they were fired upon by a strongly entrenched enemy detachment on the jungle slopes. Lieutenant Raymond immediately charged in the direction of the fire, being wounded in the right shoulder as he began to climb the hill. Ignoring his wound, and firing his rifle from the hip, he advanced up the hill. He had moved but a few yards, when a grenade, thrown by Japanese soldier, burst his face, severely wounding him. Getting to his feet, he continued, in spite of his loss of blood, to lead his section under intense fire. Hit a third time in the wrist, shattering it, he, unwavering, carried on into the enemy position, and was personally responsible for killing two Japanese and wounding a third. Lieutenant Raymond refused all offers of treatment, until several of those wounded, of his section, had been attended to. He died, the following day, from his wounds.
at Russia sower th June 1945.
Died of his wounds on 22nd March 1945 at Talaku, Burma, aged 21.
Register note: Died of wounds
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Alf recorded the memorial as: at Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma and in the Royal Engineers Museum at Rochester, Kent digest of Citation reads one second in command a reconnaissance patrol on 21st March 1945 at Telecom Burma and acting in conjunction with a large ditch and these have a special force they were fired on by strongly entrenched enemy detachment Kent
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