Awarded for Valour_ A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of the British Concept of Heroism

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  1. PRO File WO/32/7370. Edward Pennington’s Position Paper, 5 October 1866.

  2. PRO File WO/32/7370. Letter from Edward Pennington to be appended to Draft of
    Warrant Amendment, 13 December 1866; Official recommendation to amend Warrant,
    22 December 1866.

  3. ‘Bimbushi:’ Egyptian rank roughly analogous to that of a major in the British Army.

  4. PRO File WO/32/7414. Letter from Major General [?] Watkins to Military Secretary
    at Horse Guards, 9 March 1891; Enclosed Affidavits with Watkins Letter; Letter from
    Horse Guards to Permanent Under-Secretary of State, 1 April 1891.

  5. PRO File WO/32/7414. Letter from Horse Guards to Permanent Under-Secretary of
    State, 1 April 1891.

  6. PRO File WO/32/7414. Memo initialed by Edward Stanhope, Secretary of State for
    War, to Horse Guards, 1 May 1891.

  7. PRO File WO/32/7414. Military Secretary Sir George Harman to General Officer
    Commanding the Forces in Egypt, 4 June 1891.

  8. PRO File WO/32/7390. Letter from Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead to Officer
    Commanding, 2nd Battalion 24th Regiment 15 February 1879; Letter (personally
    signed) from Duke of Cambridge to Secretary of State, 29 March 1879.

  9. PRO File WO/32/7386. Letter from Lieutenant John Rouse Merriott Chard, Durban,
    to Sir Edward Strickland, 20 May 1879; Letter from Sir Edward Strickland to Lord
    Chelmsford, October 1879; Letter from Lord Chelmsford to Military Secretary, War
    Office, 17 October 1879. Likewise, the film portrayal of Henry Hook was distorted; by
    all accounts Hook was a model soldier in South Africa.

  10. PRO File WO/32/7386. Extract No. 1, His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge’s
    Schedule, 18 October 1879.

  11. PRO File WO/32/7463. Letter from Lord Kitchener, General Commanding in Chief,
    South Africa, to War Office, 26 June 1901.

  12. PRO File WO/32/7463. War Office Minute Sheet 012/1963 (undated).

  13. Clarke,Gallantry Medals, 76, 85.

  14. PRO File WO/32/7473. Undated Recommendation for the VC for Rabb and Bradley
    by Major A. J. Chapman, Officer Commanding, Itala Camp.

  15. PRO File WO/32/7473. Letter from Kitchener to Under Secretary of State for War, 15
    November 1901; Undated Recommendations for the Distinguished Conduct Medal for
    Lancashire, Boddy and Ball by Major A. J. Chapman.

  16. Byron Farwell,The Great Anglo-Boer War(New York: Harper & Row, 1976), 257.

  17. Louis Creswicke,South Africa and the Transvaal War, vol. 5 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons,
    1900), 34.

  18. Farwell,Anglo-Boer War, 259.

  19. Ibid., p. 259.

  20. Creswicke,Transvaal War, 6:8.

  21. Horace Smith-Dorien,Memories of Forty-Eight Years’ Service(London: John Murray, 1925),
    179.

  22. PRO File WO/32/7878. Memorandum from the War Office to Her Majesty, 12 June
    1900.

  23. PRO File WO/32/7878. Draft of letter 079/2536 War Office to Lord Roberts,
    Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, June 1900.

  24. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from Colonel Henry Warre to Lieutenant General John L.
    Pennefather, 9 April 1857.

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