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Major Frederick William Lumsden RMA - VC
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 4 April 1917 Brigadier General...
Si Biggs
Apr 4, 20223 min read
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Captain Lewis ST Halliday - Victoria Cross - 24th June 1900 – Boxer Rebellion China
Unit/ Formation : Victoria Cross Location : China Period/ Conflict : Boxer Rebellion Year : 1900 Date/s : 24 June 1900 Halliday was 30...
Si Biggs
Jun 24, 20212 min read
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Captain Edward Banford RMLI - Victoria Cross - Zeebrugge
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Belgium Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1918 Date/s: 23 April 1918 Bamford was 30 years...
Si Biggs
Apr 23, 20211 min read
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Corporal Thomas Peck Hunter RM - Victoria Cross
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Italy Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 9 April 1945 Hunter was 21 years old,...
Si Biggs
Apr 2, 20213 min read
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Corporal John Prettyjohns - First Royal Marine Victoria Cross - 2nd Nov 1854 – Battle of Inkerman
John Prettyjohns VC (sometimes misspelled Prettyjohn) (11 June 1823 – 20 January 1887) was the first Royal Marine to win the Victoria...
Si Biggs
Nov 2, 20203 min read
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Lieutenant George Dare Dowell RMA VC - Viborg, Baltic Sea
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Russia Period/ Conflict: Crimean War Year: 1855 Date/s: 13 July 1855 Dowell was 24 years...
Si Biggs
Jul 13, 20203 min read
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Bombardier Thomas Wilkinson RMA VC
Bombardier Thomas Wilkinson RMA VC – Crimea Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Russia Period/ Conflict: Crimean War Year: 1855...
Si Biggs
Jun 7, 20202 min read
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Major Francis Harvey RMLI - Battle Of Jutland
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Jutland Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1916 Date/s: 31 May 1916 A long serving Royal...
Si Biggs
Jun 1, 20202 min read
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Lance Corporal Parker RMLI VC - Gallipoli
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Gallipoli Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 30 April 1915 In April 1915, the...
Si Biggs
Apr 29, 20205 min read
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L/Cpl HE Harden VC (RAMC) - attached to 45 (Royal Marine) Commando - 23rd January 1945 - Netherlands
Henry Eric Harden VC (23 February 1912 – 23 January 1945), 32 years old. Harden was a lance corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps...
Simon Biggs
Jan 23, 20202 min read
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Corporal John Prettyjohn the First Royal Marine Victoria Cross - 2nd November 1854 – Battle of Inke
John Prettyjohns VC (sometimes misspelled Prettyjohn) (11 June 1823 – 20 January 1887) was the first Royal Marine to win the Victoria...
Simon Biggs
Nov 5, 20193 min read
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Pte Stanley Robert McDougall VC (1890-1968) - Pages of the Sea
On 11 November 2018, tens of thousands of people took part in Pages of the Sea – a commissioned art project by filmmaker Danny Boyle,...
Simon Biggs
Dec 1, 20181 min read
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Corporal John Prettyjohn the First Royal Marine Victoria Cross - 2nd November 1854 – Battle of Inke
John Prettyjohns VC (sometimes misspelled Prettyjohn) (11 June 1823 – 20 January 1887) was the first Royal Marine to win the Victoria...
Simon Biggs
Nov 5, 20183 min read
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Major Anders Lassen VC - SBS - Lake Commachio 8 - 9th April 1945
On the night of 8th – 9th April 1945 eighteen men from the Special Boat Service set out across Lake Comacchio to attack heavily defended...
Simon Biggs
Jan 18, 20183 min read
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David Samuel Anthony Lord VC, DFC Victoria Cross 19th September 1944 - Battle of Arnhem
As it is my Birthday I though I would remember a VC Winner from today who sacrificed his life for others: David Samuel Anthony Lord VC,...
Si Biggs
Sep 19, 20172 min read
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Victoria Cross won on the Kokoda Track - Private Bruce Steel Kingsbury VC, Australian 2/14th Infant
High in the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea, in treacherous conditions of ankle deep mud the battle for the Kokoda Track again...
Si Biggs
Aug 30, 20172 min read
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