Awarded for Valour_ A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of the British Concept of Heroism
112 AWARDED FOR VALOUR and the long retreat from Mons was a different arena for the British regular, but the heroism displayed h ...
1914: THE LAST STAND OF THE THIN RED LINE 113 Both of these Crosses are reminiscent of those awarded during any number of ninete ...
114 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Despite the fact that they were giving up ground, the BEF left Mons with its Victorian honor and heroic i ...
1914: THE LAST STAND OF THE THIN RED LINE 115 Major [Charles Alix Lavington] Yatewhen all other officers had been killed or w ...
116 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Grenfell, cousin of VC winner Francis Grenfell, fairly bristled to be at the Hun: I have not washed for a ...
1914: THE LAST STAND OF THE THIN RED LINE 117 I do think that the English people haven’t yet realized the seriousness of this sh ...
118 AWARDED FOR VALOUR men to work under very heavy fire and even used a pick and shovel himself to set an example.’^37 Despite ...
1914: THE LAST STAND OF THE THIN RED LINE 119 major conflict, the Boer War, roughly 40 percent of the Crosses awarded went to ac ...
120 AWARDED FOR VALOUR personally, a practice frowned on in the Victorian Officer Corps. The officers in coming years would be e ...
1914: THE LAST STAND OF THE THIN RED LINE 121 their leaders were wavering and beginning to retire. He also, during the day, carr ...
122 AWARDED FOR VALOUR reconnaissance so denigrated by Wells. The ability to range far over enemy lines, photograph trench syste ...
1914: THE LAST STAND OF THE THIN RED LINE 123 Compare McNamara’s act to that of Lord William Beresford: On 3 July 1879 at Ulundi ...
124 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Insall managed to force down one airplane and in turn get shot down himself, but he did so with good form ...
1914: THE LAST STAND OF THE THIN RED LINE 125 advance of the Allied armies, commencing on eight August was almost unsurpassed in ...
126 AWARDED FOR VALOUR of the secondary batteries of the High Seas Fleet.Nestorwas subsequently sunk.^66 Like some of the ninete ...
1914: THE LAST STAND OF THE THIN RED LINE 127 and captured their machine gun and many loads of ammunition. On 27 December when o ...
128 AWARDED FOR VALOUR and an attempt to sink the centre dhow by gun fire having failed, Lieu- tenant Commander Cookson ranComet ...
1914: THE LAST STAND OF THE THIN RED LINE 129 officer up behind on his own horse, under heavy fire at close range, and galloped ...
130 AWARDED FOR VALOUR On 21 April 1917, Private [Charles] Melvin’s company were waiting for reinforcements before attacking the ...
1914: THE LAST STAND OF THE THIN RED LINE 131 Such an act would have been impossible on the Western Front, and indeed even on th ...
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