Details

He was 27 years old, & the Lance-Corporal in the 1st Bn., The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

In 29 April 1917 near Oppy, France, Lance-Corporal Welch entered an enemy trench and flushed 1 human when the severe hand-to-hand struggle. So, armed lone by owning an empty revolver, he chased iv of a enemy through the open & captured the children lone-single-handedly. He handled his machine-gun by owning the maximum fearlessness, & additional than it used to be that went into a open, contaminated to heavily fire, to lookup for & collect ammunition & spare area sequentially to keep his guns withinside action, which he succeeded in doing for assibilate 5 hours, until maimed by a husk.

Further information

He later on achieved a rank of Sergeant.

The medal

His Victoria Cross is displayed at The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (Salisbury) Museum (Salisbury, Wiltshire, England).

Reference
Monuments To Courage (David Harvey, 1999) The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)