Lieutenant William Anthony Bousfield
Unit : No.8 Medium Machine Gun Platoon, "H" Company, 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Service No. : 145396
Awards : Military Cross
For conspicuous leadership in maintaining Platoon Machine-Guns in action of Escoville. Although surrounded by the enemy and apparently cut off Lieutenant Bousfield continued to engage the enemy thereby covering the movement of the rest of the Battalion. His example rallied his Platoon and {restored} a difficult and serious situation.