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54. Ibid., 36–7.


55. Ibid., 39–40.


56. Ibid., 42.


57. ‘Minutes of the Conference on the Co-Ordination of Warrants Relating to the Victoria
    Cross,’ The War Office, Whitehall, 12 November 1918, 1. Cited hereafter as ‘Committee
    II.’


58. Ibid., 2.


59. Ibid., 3.


60. Clause V, warrant of 29 January 1856; for full text of all warrants, see appendix.


61. Surgeon-Captain Arthur Martin-Leake won his Cross in 1902 tending the wounded
    under fire at Vlakfontein, South Africa; his bar came in 1914 for rescuing the wounded
    under fire in Belgium. Captain [Doctor] Noel Chavasse won his Cross tending the
    wounded under fire at Guillemont, France in 1916; the bar (posthumous) was earned
    doing the same thing at Wieltje, Belgium in 1917.Register, 189; Ann Clayton,Chavasse,
    Double VC(London: Leo Cooper, 1992), 163–9, 219–21.


62. Frank Dunham,The Long Carry: The War Diary of Stretcher Bearer Frank Dunham, 1916–1918,
    R. H. Haigh and P. W. Turner, eds (London: Pergamon Press, 1970), 5n.


63. It is possible (although outside the scope of this work) that the military’s resentment
    of this aspect of the Victoria Cross warrant along with the new civilian environment for
    heroism in the face of the Blitz was a factor in the creation of the George Cross in 1940.


64. Committee II, 4–6.


65. Ibid., 6–7.


66. Ibid., 8–12.


67. Ibid., 21–2.


68. PRO file ADM 1/8528/176. Letter from Lord Stamforham to Winston Churchill, 7
    March 1919; Letter from J. A. Corcoran to Oswyn Murray, 7 March 1919.


69. David Jablonsky,Churchill, The Great Game, and Total War(London: Frank Cass, 1991),
    14–5, 32–4, 145.


70. Winston Spencer Churchill,Thoughts and Adventures(London: Odhams Press, 1949), 200.


71. For full text of all the warrants, see appendix.
    CHAPTER 10
    
    
    1. ‘Disaster to an Indian Force,’Times, 12 June 1897, 9;Operations in Waziristan, 1919–1920.
       2nd edn (Delhi: Government Central Press, 1923), 109–10.
    
    
    2. Register, 335.
    
    
    3. World War I: Acting Captain Clement Robertson, Lieutenant Cecil H. Sewell, Acting
       Captain Richard W. L. Wain and Acting Lieutenant-Colonel Richard A. West. World
       War II: Major David V. Currie, Acting Captain Michael Allmand, Guardsman Edward
       C. Charlton, Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Henry R. B. Foote, Acting Captain Philip
       J. Gardener and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey C. T. Keyes. All of these men
       were either serving with, or members of, armored units; in some cases the individual
       was on detached duty and not acting alongside armored forces.
    
    
    4. David Fletcher,The Great Tank Scandal: British Armour in the Second World War(London: HMSO,
       1989), 57–69; George Forty,World War Two Tanks(London: Osprey, 1995), 9, 56–63; A.
       J. Smithers,Rude Mechanicals: An Account of Tank Maturity During the Second World War(London: