Tasker Watkins VC, Counsel for the Aberfan Tribunal, pictured arriving at court 2nd

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Tasker Watkins VC, Counsel for the Aberfan Tribunal, pictured arriving at court 2nd

Tasker Watkins VC, Counsel for the Aberfan Tribunal, pictured arriving at court 2nd December 1966.
Watkins was commissioned into the Welch Regiment in 1941. A lieutenant in the 1/5th battalion, he was one officer in a group in Normandy post D-Day leading an assault on a Wehrmacht machine gun post. After all the other officers were killed in the approach, Watkins continued to lead the group and won his VC for two actions on 16 August 1944.
i) he led a bayonet charge against 50 armed enemy infantry
ii) then single-handedly took out the Nazi machine-gun post to ensure the safety of his unit
-VC
President of the British Legion in Wales from 1947 to 1968

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