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278 INDEX
Order of the Bath, 27, 34, 36, 37–8, 44,
46, 60, 71, 90, 105, 108
Outram, James, Sir, 66
Palmerston, Lord, 31–2, 39, 77
Pamerston Ministry, 32–4, 64, 203
Panmure, Lord (Fox Maule), 31, 32–4,
39–41, 44–7, 54, 58, 63–5,
87, 104
Peel, Frederick, 34
Peel, Jonathan, 64–7, 70–1, 72, 87–8
Pennefather, John L., 50–1
Pennington, Edward, 77–8
Ponsonby, Frederick, Sir, 166, 171,
174–80, 182
questionable VC recommendations,
50–3, 66–8
Raglan, Lord, 28, 35, 50, 54
Rawlinson, Henry, Sir, 145, 149
Robb, Frederick Spencer, 135
Roberts, Frederick Sleigh, Lord, 18, 65,
83, 84–5, 89–92, 97, 99
Roberts, Frederick Sherston, The
Honourable, 85–6, 88–9, 109,
180, 203
Robertson, William, Sir, 156
Roebuck, John Arthur, 32
Rourke’s Drift, 79–80
Royal Air Force, 124–5, 162, 166, 168,
170–2, 177, 179, 182, 184,
190, 191–6
Royal Flying Corps, 121, 124
Russell, John, Lord, 31–2, 33
Russell, William Howard, 29
Scharnhorst, 196–7, 199
Scobell, Thomas, 35–6
Sherwood, John Seymour, 193
Shoedde, James Holmes, Sir, 52–3
‘six VCs before breakfast,’ 134–7
Slessor, Arthur Kerr, 11
Smiles, Samuel, 28
Smith-Dorrien, Horace O., 112,
114, 158
Somme, Battle of, 143–8
Sotheby, Lionel, 138–9
Surfleet, Arthur, 146, 147
Taku Forts, 75, 106, 171 and n. 243
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 6, 10, 12, 21
Timesof London, 28, 29, 35, 55, 59,
11–12, 153
editorials in, 30, 35
letters to, 29, 35–6, 40
Tirpitz, 190, 196
Victoria, Queen
attitude toward Army, 15, 39–40
creation of Victoria Cross, 38–40,
203, 61
influence on selection process, 41, 46,
54, 106
political attitudes, 30–1, 32–4, 41, 44
Victoria Cross
amending warrants, 61, 69–71, 77–8,
175, 176, 184, 209–15, 221–6
and Bomber Command, 191–3,
195–6, 205
civilian, 50, 175–7, 180, 186, 211
creation of, 34–42
Crimean recommendations, 46–54
denied/rejected recommendations,
12, 45, 47, 50, 53–7, 61–2,
63–4, 70–1, 72, 75, 76, 79, 81,
102, 104, 135–6, 158–9, 193
and n. 234
dominion/colonial eligibility, 65,
77–8, 174–5, 182, 184, 199,
212, 214–29
elective principle, 38, 78, 83–4, 102,
135–6, 165–6, 170, 182
eligibility, 44, 70–1, 77–8, 87, 106,
170, 174–5, 180, 181–2, 184
female eligibility, 166–8, 169–70,
171–2, 176–9
‘first-in’ Crosses, 74–7, 98, 106
forfeiture, 23, 106–8, 182, 184,
221, 224
Indian Establishment, 60–9, 93, 107,
170, 174, 184, 190, 209–10,
213–14, 216–26
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