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Office, and a ‘complimentary copy’ to the Home Office, 12 August, 1918. The Home
Office was not invited to attend, merely notified that the meeting was to take place.
- Ibid.
- Nicolson,King George the Fifth, 395n, 469n.
- ‘Minutes of the First Meeting of the “Committee on Co-Ordination etc. of Warrants
Relating to the V.C.,” 30 August 1918, Whitehall,’ 1. The minutes of this meeting
will hereafter be cited as ‘Committee I’ followed by the page number of the original
transcript. - Committee I, 1.
- Ibid., 2.
- Ibid., 3–4.
- Ibid., 4.
- Ibid., 5.
- Macdonald,They Called it Passchendaele, 166–7. Undated statement of Sergeant John Carmi-
chael, 9th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment. - Register, 54.
- Committee I, 6–7.
- While Graham’s assertion was that each and every VC granted during the Great War
had two witnesses, the nature of some of them – like that of Todger Jones, operating
alone in the German trenches – make it a logical impossibility that the Army always
adhered to this standard. - For example, see the controversy surrounding Captain William Bishop’s solo Victoria
Cross in Kennett,First Air War, 164. - Committee I, 8–9.
- Ibid., 21.
- In fact it did not; it was limited to the forces of New Zealand only. The idea that it
could possibly cover troops from India was an impossibility as long as the Duke of
Cambridge drew breath. - Committee I, 21–2.
- Ibid., 22.
- Register, 296.
- Committee I, 23–4; Captain Smith was eventually gazetted as a ‘Temporary Lieutenant,
Royal Naval Reserve’ and received a posthumous Victoria Cross on 24 May 1919. - See appendix for full text of all warrants;Register,9.
- Committee I, 41–2.
- Ibid., 24.
- Ibid., 28.
- Clarke,Gallantry Medals, 84–5.
- Committee I, 29–30.
- Ibid., 30.
- Ibid., Ponsonby, 31.
- Ibid., 31.
- Ibid., Graham, 32. Note that the woman is not mentioned by name.
- Ibid., Everett, 33.
- Ibid., Everett, 33.
- Ibid., 34.
- Ibid., 36.