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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Victoria Cross - Victor Buller Turner
| Issuer | States of Guernsey |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, bareheaded and wearing a pearl drop earring, as sculpted by Ian Rank-Broadley. The portrait, rendered in high relief on a mirror-proof field, depicts the Queen in mature likeness with elaborately styled hair. The encircling legend reads ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY, with the date 2006 at lower right and the engraver's initials IRB incuse below the truncation. |
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| Reverse lettering | VICTOR BULLER TURNER FOR VALOUR WESTERN DESERT 1942 FIVE POUNDS |
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Victor Buller Turner was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at Snipe on 27 October 1942, one of the most celebrated small-unit actions of the Western Desert campaign. As commanding officer of a composite force holding a isolated outpost overnight against repeated German and Italian tank attacks, Turner's battalion destroyed or disabled over 50 Axis armoured vehicles — a figure that strained credibility until confirmed by post-battle surveys. Turner himself remained in the open throughout, directing fire and personally manning weapons as casualties mounted.
Guernsey's VC commemoration series, of which this is one piece, drew on the island's longstanding ties to British military tradition rather than any direct local connection to the individual honored.