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

January 4, 2008 MAC/ARD Page-246 16:12 9780230_547056_14_not01
246 NOTES

70. PRO File WO/32/7478. Memo from Lord Roberts to Secretary of State St John Broderick,
    7 April 1902.


71. Lieutenant Gustavus Coulson, DOW 18 May 1901, Lambrechtfontein; Trooper Herman
    Albrecht and Lieutenant Robert Digby-Jones, KIA 6 January 1900, Ladysmith; Private
    John Barry, KIA 8 January 1901, Monument Hill; Captain David Younger, DOW 11
    July 1900, Krugersdorp.


72. PRO File WO/32/7498. Memo from General Sir Ian Hamilton, 8 October 1902.


73. PRO File WO/32/7498. Letter from Lord Rathmore to St. John Broderick, 17 September
    1902.


74. PRO File WO/32/7498. Undated Letter from St John Broderick to Lord Roberts,
    assumed to be mid-September 1902; Letter from Lord Roberts to St John Broderick, 27
    September 1902.


75. PRO File WO/32/7498. Memo from General Sir Ian Hamilton, 8 October 1902.


76. PRO File WO/32/7498. Memo from St John Broderick, 9 October 1902.


77. PRO File WO/32/7498. Lord Roberts, Instructions to Military Secretary (Hamilton),
    12 October 1902.


78. PRO File WO/32/7499. Undated Memo of J. S. Ewart, Military Secretary.


79. PRO File WO/32/7500. Memo from Lord Knollys to War Office,? November 1906.


80. PRO File WO/32/7500. Query from Colonel Sir Arthur Davidson to the War Office, 3
    December 1906; Letter from Sir Arthur Wynne to Davidson, 6 December 1906; Letter
    from Davidson to Wynne, 8 December 1906.


81. See appendix for the full text of all warrants.


82. John Buchan,The King’s Grace(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935), 57.


83. Harold Nicolson,King George the Fifth: His Life and Reign(London: Constable, 1952), 169.
    CHAPTER 5
    
    
    1. Register, 246.
    
    
    2. The author is indebted to Dr Melvin W. Smith, Professor of Marketing and Statistics,
       Stamford University (retired) for guidance in preparing the statistical analysis of the
       Victoria Cross winners.
    
    
    3. Andrew Lambert, ‘The Shield of Empire,’ in J. R. Hill and Bryan Ranft,The Oxford Illustrated
       History of the Royal Navy(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 184, pointed out that
       between 1856 and 1914 the British battle fleet saw action only once, at Alexandria in
       1882.
    
    
    4. Register, 279.
    
    
    5. Ibid., p. 153.
    
    
    6. Ibid., p. 150.
    
    
    7. PRO File WO/98/3. Copy of Gazette entry of Lieutenant Luke O’Connor.
    
    
    8. Keegan,The Face of Battle, 265.
    
    
    9. PRO File WO/98/3. Copy of Gazette entry of Brevet Major Frederick C. Elton.
    
    
    
    


84. PRO File WO/98/3. Copy of Gazette entry of Corporal John Ross.


85. PRO File WO/98/3. Copy of Gazette entry of Private John J. Sims


86. Register, 194.


87. PRO File WO/98/3. Recommendation of Mate Charles D. Lucas;Register, 196.


88. Register, 281.