Victor was awarded his Victoria Cross for gallantry during the Second Battle of El Alamein in World War II, when commanding a battalion of The Rifle Brigade, the battalion he led fought off desperate counter-attacks by 90 tanks, destroying or immobilising more than 50 of them.
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