Awarded for Valour_ A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of the British Concept of Heroism
SEVEN The Middle Parts of Fortune: Heroism in Evolution, 1915–1916 T he campaign of 1914 was a brutal awakening for the BEF. Vir ...
HEROISM IN EVOLUTION, 1915–1916 133 part.^2 The ideal of heroism began evolving from its Victorian roots into a twentieth-centur ...
134 AWARDED FOR VALOUR The citations neglected to mention that the entanglement in question was the British barbed wire directly ...
HEROISM IN EVOLUTION, 1915–1916 135 the officers, and sergts: Stubbs and Richards, corpl: Grimshaw and private Keneally, are the ...
136 AWARDED FOR VALOUR For Hunter-Weston to forward a total of six VCs was excessive. That he had not submitted one officer, one ...
HEROISM IN EVOLUTION, 1915–1916 137 Chief recommended that all three men get the VC. With the approval of the Secretary of State ...
138 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Table 7.1 Acts winning the Victoria Cross, 1915: winners by quarter Quarter Jan.–Mar. April–June July–Sep ...
HEROISM IN EVOLUTION, 1915–1916 139 the arriving officers had seen enough lassitude in the ranks to comment on it as a problem e ...
140 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Table 7.2 The cost of courage, 1915: casualties per quarter Quarter Jan.–Mar. April–June July–Sept. Oct.– ...
HEROISM IN EVOLUTION, 1915–1916 141 rate. The men who entered the Army on the outbreak of war were of a very different mold than ...
142 AWARDED FOR VALOUR admission to a public school, the state secondary school system emulated the public school model, thus hi ...
HEROISM IN EVOLUTION, 1915–1916 143 was buried or strung by the British Army in 1916), building rail lines, and creating new roa ...
144 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Table 7.3 Acts winning the Victoria Cross, 1916: Winners by quarter Quarter Jan.–March April–June July–Se ...
HEROISM IN EVOLUTION, 1915–1916 145 Table 7.4 Breakdown of Crosses won, 1915 and 1916 by quarter Quarter Jan.–Mar. April–June Ju ...
146 AWARDED FOR VALOUR lethality total drops first to a level equal to that of the previous year, and then in the next quarter t ...
HEROISM IN EVOLUTION, 1915–1916 147 Men spoke in whispers. Their faces were pallid, dirty, and unshaven, many with eyes ringed w ...
148 AWARDED FOR VALOUR The Somme was a harsh baptism for the Kitchener soldiers, and it cost the commanders the confidence of th ...
HEROISM IN EVOLUTION, 1915–1916 149 He expected the intense artillery preparation would allow the British Fourth Army to punch t ...
150 AWARDED FOR VALOUR heroism, some formula that mandated ‘x’ number of heroes for ‘y’ number of troops involved.^77 The lower ...
HEROISM IN EVOLUTION, 1915–1916 151 A photograph was taken of the cocky Cheshire private as he herded his charges into the rear ...
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