The citation for Captain Shout’s Victoria Cross published in the London Gazette dated 15 October 1915 reads:-

“For most conspicuous bravery at Lone Pine Trenches, in the Gallipoli Peninsula.  On the morning of the 9th August, 1915, with a very small party, Captain Shout charged down trenches strongly occupied by the enemy, and personally threw four bombs among them, killing eight and routing the remainder.

In the afternoon of the same day, from the position gained in the morning, he captured a further length of trench under similar conditions, and continued personally to bomb the enemy at close range under very heavy fire until he was severely wounded, losing his right hand and left eye. This most gallant officer has since succumbed to his injuries.”

He died aboard the hospital ship H.M.S. Euralia off Gallipoli on 11 August 1915 and was buried at sea.