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

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42. ‘Parliamentary Intelligence, Distribution of the Victoria Cross,’Times, 26 June 1857, 7.


43. Clause eight of the 1920 warrant; see appendix for full text of all warrants.


44. PRO FileWO/32/7474. Memo from Colonel Edward Owen Hay, Assistant Adjutant
    General Royal Artillery to Adjutant General’s Office, 9 December 1901; Memo from
    Adjutant General to the General Commanding in Chief, 29 January 1902.


45. PRO File WO/32/7474. Letter from Adjutant General to Colonel Edward Owen Hay,
    1 February 1902, with admonition: ‘please note, this ends this matter.’


46. Byron Farwell,Eminent Victorian Soldiers, 159–60.


47. Creswicke,Transvaal War, 2:189.


48. Farwell,Great Anglo-Boer War, 127.


49. Callwell,Small Wars, 429–32.


50. William Baring Pemberton,Battles of the Boer War(London: B. T. Batsford, 1964), 138;
    Farwell,Great Anglo-Boer War, 128.


51. Pemberton,Battles of the Boer War, 139.


52. Farwell,Great Anglo-Boer War, 133.


53. Pemberton,Battles of the Boer War, 141.


54. Statement of Captain Walter Norris Congreve concerning Colenso, quoted in Creswicke,
    Transvaal War, 2:200.


55. Farwell,Great Anglo-Boer War, 135; Creswicke,Transvaal War, 2:193, 200.


56. Pemberton,Battles of the Boer War, 142.


57. Victoria Cross warrant of 1856; for full text see appendix.


58. PRO File WO/32/7300. Letter from Lord Panmure to Edward Pennington,? April 1856.


59. PRO File WO/32/7498. Memorandum from the War Office to His Majesty, 20 October
    1902.


60. PRO File WO/98/3. Letter from Sir Henry Storks to Captain Colin Yorke Campbell,
    Royal Artillery, 6 May 1858.


61. ‘Shortly afterwards Captain H. L. Reed, 7th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, who had heard
    of the difficulty, brought down three teams from his battery to see if he could be of any
    use. He was wounded as were five of the thirteen men who rode out with him; one was
    killed, his body was found on the field, and thirteen out of the twenty-one horses were
    killed before he got half-way to the guns, and he was obliged to retire’


62. General Sir Redvers Buller, General Commanding in Chief, South Africa, to the Secretary
    of State for War, 16 December 1899. Quoted in Creswicke,Transvaal War, 2:199.


63. Ibid., p. 200.


64. Ibid.


65. PRO File WO/32/7470. Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton to Captain William Norris
    Congreve, 7 June 1901.


66. PRO File WO/32/7470. Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton to General Sir Redvers
    Buller, 22 May 1901. Hamilton had twice been recommended for the Victoria Cross
    himself, and on the second occasion his nomination had been denied by Buller as
    theatre commander. It can only be assumed that he thoroughly enjoyed writing this
    letter reversing Buller’s decision.


67. PRO File WO/32/7470. War Office Memorandum, 18 May 1901.


68. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from Major General Jonathan Peel to John Godfrey, 13 May
    1856.


69. PRO File WO/32/7478. Documents related to the extension of the posthumous Victoria
    Cross. ‘Explanatory Memoranda A.’