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Excerpt from "The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-1945, 23 Battalion, Chapter 5, Battle of Crete." "Entering from another angle, D Company had its measure of success. The... leading platoon, No. 18, under Lieutenant Cunningham, took the hardest way of entering Galatas by going over walls and through backyards, but this was sound tactics as it enabled some heavy machine-gun posts to be outflanked or overrun. When they did find themselves forced to charge up a narrow street, a machine gun held up the attack for a minute or two until Private David Seaton broke the spell by striding forward firing his Bren gun from the hip. While he kept up steady bursts, others edged round to a flank and knocked out the machine gun with grenades. Seaton was killed but the attack surged on again." Full chapter available at this link: http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-23Ba-c5.html Read More

Memorial Plaque for David Erwin Seaton which is attached to the Seaton Family Monument (Block 1, Plot 6) at Portobello Cemetery, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.