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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Victoria Cross - Herbert Le Patourel
| Issuer | States of Guernsey |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY IRB 2006 |
| Reverse description | The reverse features a composite design commemorating Major Herbert Le Patourel VC, with his uniformed portrait bust prominently displayed to the right of centre, wearing a peaked officer's cap. To the left, a dynamic battle scene depicts a soldier in combat at Tebourba, Tunisia, 1942. In the upper centre, a rectangular cartouche bears the Victoria Cross motto FOR VALOUR in raised letters. At the lower centre, the Victoria Cross medal itself is rendered in detail. The legends HERBERT LE PATOUREL and TEBOURBA 1942 arc along the upper field to left and right respectively, with FIVE POUNDS along the lower periphery. |
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Herbert Le Patourel was a Guernsey-born officer who received the Victoria Cross for an attack on enemy positions near Tebourba, Tunisia in December 1942 — leading repeated assaults after all other officers in his company had been killed or wounded. He was reported dead and the VC was gazetted posthumously, only for Le Patourel to turn up alive in a prisoner-of-war camp. The award was confirmed regardless.
This issue is one in a long-running Guernsey series honoring VC recipients with island connections, struck in the centenary years following the medal's establishment.