Geoffrey Keyes (VC)
LieutenantColonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes, VC, MC was a British soldier of the Second World War and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award that can be made to British and Commonwealth forces for gallantry in the face of the enemy. At the time he was the youngest acting lieutenant colonel in the British Army.
Author Michael Asher has pointed out that Keyes VC citation was written by an officer who was not an eyewitness , and is at odds with the accounts of the survivors of the raid, and with German accounts according to Asher, there is scarcely any statement in the citation that is verifiably true. Ashers view is that the operation grew out of Keyes desire to achieve the heroic status of his father, the WW1 naval hero, Admiral Roger Keyes. The Rommel Raid was born out of one mans ambition to achieve glory, he has written,and as so many times in British history, it was rescued from ignominy by the valour and determination of ordinary enlisted men, none of whom played a part in its planning, nor were even told the nature of their mission before they embarked.322
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