Evening Chronicle (Oldham), various issues between 1914 and 1983
Lancashire & Cheshire Branch Report Bulletin, No. 46, October 1996
McInnes, The Medal Box
Oldham Chronicle, April and May 1993
The People, 9 February 1969
J.A.O. Brooke
Adams, N.
2nd Btn. Gordon Highlanders War Diary, October 1914, WO 95/1656, NA
WO 339/6327, NA
A. Martin-Leake
British Medical Journal, 4 July 1953
Clayton, A.
Military Historical Society Bulletin, Vol. V, No. 20, May 1955
Paper collected by H.C. Benson, 86/67/1, Imperial War Museum
The Daily Telegraph, 1915
The Hertfordshire Mercury, 16 May and 20 June 1986
The Times, 24 June 1953
WO 32/4991, NA
WO 32/4992, NA
Khudadad Khan
Daily Mirror, 26 January 1915
The Daily Telegraph, 15 December 1914
The Times, 27 January 1915
S.J. Bent
Bury Free Press, 16 January 1915
Courage (Eastern) Ltd
Daily Mirror, March 1915
Daily Sketch, 11 December 1914
‘Spencer John Bent VC’, Bulletin, No 73, November 2005
Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury, 18 December 1914
J.F. Vallentin
22nd Infantry Brigade War Diary, WO 95/1660, NA
The Stafford Knot, April 1969
W.L. Brodie
2nd Btn. Highland Light Infantry War Diary, WO 95/1347, NA
WO 339/5952, NA
J.H.S. Dimmer
Daily Mail, 21 November 1914 and 1 January 1919
Harrison, D., ‘Jack Dimmer, VC, MC’, Stand To!, No. 12, winter 1984
Suffolk and Essex Free Press, 12 May 1915
The Daily Telegraph, 20 November 1914
Wimbledon and District Gazette, 2 May 1908
Wimbledon Series, 8 November 1984
WO 339/7051, NA
J.F.P. Butler
Lucas, Sir C., The Empire at War, Vol. IV
WO 339/630, NA
T.E. Rendle
Daily Chronicle, 13 January 1915
Daily Mail, January and March 1915
Daily Sketch, March 1915 and 13 July 1915
Lloyd’s Weekly News (Bristol)
Darwan Sing Negi
East Anglian Daily Times, 7 December 1914
F.A. de Pass
The War Budget, 6 March 1915
H.P. Ritchie
The Times, 24 May 1918 and 12 December 1958
N.D. Holbrook
Border Mercury Mail (Australia), May 1982
Daily Sketch, 6 February 1915
The Daily Telegraph, 15 December 1914, 5 July 1976 and 24 September 1976
The News, 7 April 1987
The Times, 15 December 1914 and 5 July 1976
A tape interview of personal recollections with Peter Liddle in a series entitled For Valour, The Liddle Collection, University of Leeds
H.H. Robson
Cavanagh, J.
North Mail, 24 May 1916
The Northern Echo
The Gazette (South Shields), issues between February 1915 and December 1989
W.A. McCrae Bruce
Beal, M. and Ford, D., Jersey
‘Commemorating in Jersey the 90th Anniversary of the Great War’, Bulletin, No 82, October/ November 2008
P. Neame
East Anglian Daily Times, 12 April 1941
Faversham Library
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Interview with David Lance, Imperial War Museum
Kent Messenger, 12 February 1954
This England
J. Mackenzie
Cameron, J. M.
A. Acton
Bury Free Press, 10 April 1915
2nd Btn. The Border Regiment Diary, December 1914,WO 95/1655, NA
J. Smith
Evening Gazette (Teesside), 22 May 1968
Northern Echo, 23 May and 25 May 1968
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PLATES
2nd Lt. Leach and Sgt. Hogan recapturing a trench from the Germans
Mons Canal railway bridge, 23 August. Lt. Maurice Dease and Pte. Sidney Frank Godley, 4th Royal Fusiliers, in the action that won them the first two Victoria Crosses to be awarded in the First World War
Capt. T. Wright setting the charges under Mariette Bridge
Cpl. C.E. Garforth in action during early September
Audregnies, 24 August
Sgt. Nelson and BSM Dorrell at Néry, 1 September
No. 6 gun of L Battery
J.H.C. Drain, Capt. D Reynolds F. Luke
Lt. Dimmer on his horse
Capt. D. Reynolds, Drivers J.H.C. Drain and F. Luke at Le Cateau, 26 August
Capt. Johnston ferrying men across the River Aisne
Bombardier E.G. Horlock returned twice to lay his gun despite being wounded
Drummer S.J. Bent rescuing Pte. McNulty
Lt. J.A.O. Brooke in action at Gheluvelt
Capt. J.F.P. Butler swimming in the River Ekam, 27 December
Capt. J.F.P Butler, the Cameroons, 17 November
Lt. de Pass bombing the enemy after entering one of their saps
Lt. J.H.S. Dimmer in charge of four machine guns at Klein Zillebeke
Drummer W. Kenny marching at the front of his regimental drums and pipes
Maj. C.A.L. Yate as a prisoner-of-war
L. Cpl. C.A. Jarvis at Chelmsford, July 1915
Capt. Mark Haggard
Darwan Sing Negi fighting in the trenches at Festubert 23/24 November
Capt. J. Vallentin recapturing the vital trench
Drummer W. Kenny rescuing a wounded soldier at the First Battle of Ypres in October
Ptes. A. Acton and J. Smith, Rouges Bancs, 19 December
‘One man against seven – how a Highlander [Pte G. Wilson] won the Victoria Cross.’
Drummer W. Kenny
Pte J. Smith
Pte A. Acton
Memorial to J.F. Vallentin
The gravestone of Capt. T. Wright
The gravestone of Lance Cpl. F. W. Dobson
Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey
The gravestone of P. Neame, St Mary the Virgin, Selling, Kent.
Former gravestone of Pte H. May, which has now been replaced.
The graves of five men of L Battery, at Verberie Cemetery
Memorial to Pte H. Robson
Neuve Chapelle Indian Memorial, France
Maxwelltown Memorial, Dumfries
Le Touret Memorial, France
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