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

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  1. Richard Townshend Bickers,The First Great Air War(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988),
    202–3; Wilson,Myriad Faces of War, 363.

  2. ‘Wing Adjutant,’Plane Tales From the Skies(London: Cassell, 1918),passim. The title alone
    speaks volumes of the Victorian connection.

  3. Denis Winter,The First of the Few: Fighter Pilots of the First World War(Athens, GA: The
    University of Georgia Press, 1983), 132–3.

  4. William Avery Bishop,Winged Warfare: Hunting Huns in the Air(London: Hodder &
    Stoughton, 1918), 1.

  5. Register, 210.

  6. Ibid., p. 29.

  7. Ibid., p. 206.

  8. Ibid., p. 162.

  9. Ibid., p. 31.

  10. Bruce Lewis,A Few of the First: The True Stories of the Men Who Flew in and before the First World
    War(London: Leo Cooper, 1997), 230;Kennett, First Air War, 164.

  11. John H. Morrow,The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921(Washington:
    Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993), 320–1.

  12. Register, 259.

  13. Ibid., p. 330.

  14. Ibid., p. 30.

  15. The role ofNestorappears only in the most detailed accounts of Jutland; in most, Bingham’s
    command appeared only as an icon on a chart, noting where the ship was sunk.

  16. Submarine commanders often preferred to surface and sink an unarmed target with the
    deck gun and thus conserve expensive torpedoes for more dangerous targets. Q-Ships
    were freighters equipped with hidden guns to deal with this threat.

  17. Register, 254.

  18. Ibid., 71.

  19. Ibid., p. 47

  20. Ibid., p. 202.

  21. Ibid., p. 83.

  22. Wilson,Myriad Faces of War, 276.

  23. Register, 70.

  24. Ibid., p. 315.

  25. Ibid., p. 331.

  26. Ibid., p. 159.

  27. Ibid., pp. 45, 172.

  28. Ibid., p. 43.

  29. Rescue Wounded: 2nd Lieutenant Myles Edward Kinghorn, Reverend William Addison,
    Private James Henry Fynn, Corporal Sidney William Ware, Captain Angus Buchanan,
    Lance-Naik Lala, Captain John Alexander Sinton, Sepoy Chatta Singh; Defense: Naik
    Shahamad Khan, Private George Stringer; Resupply: Lieutenant Commander Charles
    Henry Cowley, Lieutenant Hunphrey Obaldson Brooke Firman.

  30. William Robertson,From Private to Field Marshal(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1921), 273–5.
    Robertson was influential in nominating Maude for the Mesopotamian command.

  31. Paul K. Davis,Ends and Means: The British Mesopotamian Campaign and Commission(London:
    Associated University Presses, 1994), 230–1; Puleston,The High Command, 264–5; Wilson,
    Myriad Faces of War, 380–1.

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