Awarded for Valour_ A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of the British Concept of Heroism
92 AWARDED FOR VALOUR The impossibility of arguing with the relatives of a dead man is well shown by the intensely disagreeable ...
THE IMPERIAL VISION OF HEROISM 93 under any circumstances.^80 On Tuesday, 15 January 1907, the six were gazetted. What the reaso ...
FIVE Fifty Years On: A Half-Century of Heroism T he last pre-First World War Victoria Cross was granted in 1904. Thus it is a co ...
FIFTY YEARS ON: A HALF-CENTURY OF HEROISM 95 Purely symbolic acts comprised a small percentage of the deeds earning a Victoria C ...
96 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Table 5.1 Acts winning the Victoria Cross, nineteenth century: winners per decade Decade 1850s 1860s 1870s ...
FIFTY YEARS ON: A HALF-CENTURY OF HEROISM 97 recognized at all. True, there is a massive jump in defensive VCs during the 1870s, ...
98 AWARDED FOR VALOUR and fought fiercely – on foot after he and his horse had been ridden down. He was about to be killed with ...
FIFTY YEARS ON: A HALF-CENTURY OF HEROISM 99 the industrial age. Both Buller and Roberts were of the old school, reaching the en ...
100 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Table 5.2 Enlisted versus officer in life-saving VCs, nineteenth century Decade 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1 ...
FIFTY YEARS ON: A HALF-CENTURY OF HEROISM 101 returned from the shore, and at the height of the action a live shell landed on th ...
102 AWARDED FOR VALOUR The colors were important to many, but some commanding officers were more pragmatic. Lieutenant Colonel J ...
FIFTY YEARS ON: A HALF-CENTURY OF HEROISM 103 Grapeshot and musket balls tended to produce devastating wounds, whereas an assega ...
104 AWARDED FOR VALOUR these junior officers. The obvious reason for this disparity is the potential for valour provided to lieu ...
FIFTY YEARS ON: A HALF-CENTURY OF HEROISM 105 it would be tempting to link these disservices to ‘ring politics,’ it appears that ...
106 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Russian positions near Inkerman. The intelligence he brought back allowed a successful surprise attack. H ...
FIFTY YEARS ON: A HALF-CENTURY OF HEROISM 107 round detonated three ammunition boxes and set two more on fire. McGuire and Drumm ...
108 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Daniel was stripped of the award on 4 September 1861 for desertion and failure to answer court martial ch ...
FIFTY YEARS ON: A HALF-CENTURY OF HEROISM 109 to mind without much effort. The phenomenon reached its epitome (or perhaps nadir) ...
SIX 1914: The Last Stand of the Thin Red Line T he ideals of Victorian heroism had been refined facing crazed Ghazis, fanatical ...
1914: THE LAST STAND OF THE THIN RED LINE 111 The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was also a pathetically small force in compa ...
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