Awarded for Valour_ A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of the British Concept of Heroism
52 AWARDED FOR VALOUR It is nonetheless disturbing that all of the privates’ statements are virtually identical, word for word. ...
TEETHING PROBLEMS, 1856–1867 53 Yorke: ‘which I beg strongly to recommend to His Royal HighnessThere are I believe few better ...
54 AWARDED FOR VALOUR There were also those who sought, like Colonel Daubeney, to inflate some mention of their gallantry into o ...
TEETHING PROBLEMS, 1856–1867 55 rejection. When the Adjutant General spoke with the cold voice of authority, without giving any ...
56 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Courtney claimed that it had been he, not McWheeney, who had saved Private Keane, and that McWheeney had b ...
TEETHING PROBLEMS, 1856–1867 57 Thimbleby based his claim on the statement made by an officer of another regiment who had observ ...
58 AWARDED FOR VALOUR for more than a decade; the last mention of his name in the VC files was a draft of yet another rejection ...
TEETHING PROBLEMS, 1856–1867 59 in nine days. I also assisted General L. P. D. Cesnola to make out these plans and forward them ...
60 AWARDED FOR VALOUR to the ambition of the humblest soldier – a road is open to honour which thousands have toiled, and pined, ...
TEETHING PROBLEMS, 1856–1867 61 over the armed forces in India, with three separate military commands, or presidencies, operatin ...
62 AWARDED FOR VALOUR be conferred on Duffadar Gunkut Ras Deokur of the Southern Mahratha Irregular Horse.^64 Despite this defin ...
TEETHING PROBLEMS, 1856–1867 63 of massacre and rapine perpetrated by the ‘dusky heathen,’ and the whole of the Indian military ...
64 AWARDED FOR VALOUR to submit the names to her Majesty for this distinguished mark of her Majesty’s favour for which they have ...
TEETHING PROBLEMS, 1856–1867 65 Panmure on the subjectand submit at once to Her Majesty the names of the several officers, no ...
66 AWARDED FOR VALOUR 21 September 1857 from Headquarters, Delhi City, by Major General Arch- dale Wilson, detailing the provisi ...
TEETHING PROBLEMS, 1856–1867 67 confirmed by the home government. The War Office could not deny the initial provisional bestowal ...
68 AWARDED FOR VALOUR delivered, though. The government would not tolerate nepotism or ‘old boy’ connections in the granting of ...
TEETHING PROBLEMS, 1856–1867 69 a VC by Private Samuel Morely (no apparent relation to Thomas Morely) of the Military Train was ...
70 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Secretary Major General Peelentirely concurs with H.R.H. in opinion that the heroism displayed by th ...
TEETHING PROBLEMS, 1856–1867 71 Those ‘whomay performacts,’ not ‘those whohave performedacts’ were eligible for the Cross. Despi ...
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