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VCs of the First World War 1914

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by Gerald Gliddon

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

  Gazette and Times (Kent), 11 May 1978

  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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  The following list is a selection of the published sources used in this book. It does not include regimental, brigade or divisional histories which are too numerous to list.

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  Williams, W. Alister, The VCs of Wales and the Welsh Regiments, 1984 Ed.

  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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  First published in 1994

  This edition published in 2011

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