VCs of the First World War 1915 The Western Front
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Sentinel May 1968
E.D. Bellew
The Civilian July 1919
The Daily Sun (Vancouver) 22 September 1919
7th Canadian Infantry Battalion War Diary (WO 95/3768 PRO)
Toronto Globe 25 October 1929
Winnipeg Evening Tribune 29 October 1929
Winnipeg Free Press 20 October 1934
Victor 10 May 1985
F.A.C. Scrimger
Canadian Medical Association Journal April 1916
Montreal Star
The Legionary March 1937
Mir Dast
The Vivid 30 October 1915
57th Rifles War Diary (WO 95/3923 PRO)
58th Rifles War Diary (WO 95/3948 PRO)
I. Smith
Weekly Dispatch 5 September 1915
The Sphere 12 August 1922
Gunfire No 30
The Age 23 April 1991
Independent 11 October 1995
Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol II
1st Manchester Regt War Diary (WO 95/3927 PRO)
Maurice Smith
Dr Judy Landau
VAJEX Australia Inc.
Jullundur Brigade Association
J. Lynn
The Lancashire Fusilier’s Annual
War Illustrated 24 July 1915
2nd Lancashire Fusiliers’ War Diary (WO 95/1507 PRO)
E. Warner
1st Bedfordshire Regt War Diary (WO 95/1570 PRO)
The Wasp and the Eagle 1962
J. Upton
Daily Sketch 2 July 1915
Lincolnshire Life January 1994
C.R. Sharpe
Daily Sketch 2 July 1915
Cumberland Star 22 February 1963
British Legion Journal April 1963
Cemeteries and Crematorium Department, City of Lincoln
J. Ripley
Daily Sketch 2 July 1915
The Sphere 12 July 1915
Scotsman 15 August 1933
Montrose Standard 25 August 1933
Red Hackle October 1933
1st Black Watch War Diary (WO 95/1263 PRO)
D. Finlay
Soldier May 1967
2nd Black Watch War Diaries (WO 95/3948 PRO, WO 95/5138 PRO)
The Scottish War Memorial Project
D.W. Belcher
Sunday Pictorial 18 July 1915
The Times 1 February 1917
Sunday Dispatch 24 May 1931
Tunbridge Wells Advertiser 1933 and 1935
Surrey Advertiser 16 February 1935
Sevenoaks Courier 11 October 1935
Dorking Advertiser 17 June 1938
The People 26 November 1939
Surrey Comet 9 August 1941
1/5th London Regiment War Diary (WO 95/1498 PRO)
F. Barter
Daily Sketch 7 July and 9 August 1915
South Wales Daily News 13 July 1915
Daily Chronicle 14 August 1915
South Wales Echo 8 November 1929
Western Mail 28 March 1992
2/3rd Gurkha War Diary (WO 95/4689 PRO)
J.H. Tombs
Warrington Guardian July and August 1915
Daily Chronicle 13 August 1915
Daily News (Perth) 6 November 1929
Daily Sketch 4 November 1929
Daily Telegraph 28 August 1954
Toronto Globe and Mail 4 July 1966
1st Liverpool (King’s) Regt War Diary (WO 95/1359 PRO)
Sid Lindsay
Courtney Finn (Grantham Civic Society)
J.G. Smyth
The Times Weekly Edition 30 July 1920
Daily Telegraph various issues 1962 to 1983
The Times 27 April 1983
This England Autumn 1983
L.J. Keyworth
Daily Telegraph 12 July 1915
Lincolnshire Echo 20 July 1931
Daily Mail 22 March 1963
Southwark Recorder
Herts Advertiser
Orders and Medals Research Society No 3 Vol 6 September 1967
Local Services Library, Southwark Education and Leisure Services
24th London Regt War Diary (WO 95/2744 PRO)
www.thelincolnshireregiment.org
W. Mariner
Daily Mirror 13 August 1915
Daily Sketch 13 August 1915
W. Angus
Daily Mail 31 August 1915
Daily Sketch 15 January 1917 and 5 December 1929
The People 12 November 1939
The Scotsman 30 September 1957
Glasgow Herald 15 June 1959
Victor 31 August 1963
Sunday Express 1 January 1995
The papers of Brig. A.F. Lambert (IWM)
F.W. Campbell
Daily Sketch 13 July 1915
Department of Tourism and Information (Historical Branch), Canada
1st Canadian Infantry Battalion War Diary (WO 95/3760 PRO)
S.C. Woodroffe
8th Rifle Brigade War Diary (WO 95/1896 PRO)
Medal News
G.A. Boyd-Rochfort
Daily Mirror 2 September and 8 September 1915
Daily Mail 3 September 1915
The Times 8 August and 2 September 1940
D. Laidlaw
7th KOSB War Diary (WO 95/1953 PRO)
The Pipes of War Sir Bruce Seton and John Gaunt 1920
Morning Post 16 October 1929
North Mail (Newcastle) 30 October 1931
Weekly Scotsman 21 November 1931
Alnwick and County Gazette 14 April 1934
Pearson’s Weekly 1 October 1938
Answers 12 November 1938
The People 28 January 1940
The Times 3 June 1950
Berwickshire Advertiser 4 June 1950
Medal News April 1994
G.S. Peachment
2nd KRRC War Diary (WO 95/1272 PRO)
A.M. Read
1st Northamptonshire Regt War Diary (WO95/1271 PRO)
A. Vickers
2nd Royal Warwickshires War Diary (WO 95/1664 PRO)
Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury 12 March 1916
Birmingham Mail 28 July 1944
H. Wells
2nd Royal Sussex Regt War Diary (WO 95/1269 PRO)
Kentish Gazette/Herne Bay Press/ Whitstable Press 6 September 1974, 14 September 1979
H.E. Kenny
13th Durham Light Infantry War Diary (WO 95/2182 PRO)
Newcastle Evening World 9 November 1929
Newcastle Daily Journal 17 October 1929, 9 December 1929 and 24 November 1932
F.H. Johnson
73rd Field Coy R.E. War Diary (WO 95/1925 PRO)
Glendining’s Sale Catalogue 1 March 1989
A.F. Douglas-Hamilton
6th Cameron Highlanders War Diary (WO 95/ ?PRO)
The 79th News September 1958
R. Dunsire
13th Royal Scots War Diary (WO 95/1946 PRO)
A.F. Saunders
Ipswich Evening Star 14 November 1932 and 18 November 1935
The Times 5 July 1934
Cambridge Daily News 18 November 1935
The Times 4 August 1947
East Anglian Magazine August 1964
Castle: The Journal of The Royal Anglian Regt Vol 8, No 5, 1989
Britannia and Castle June 1994
J.D. Pollock
5th Cameron Highlanders War Diary (WO 95/1767 PRO)
Press and Journal 1 August 1956
The 79th News September 1958
A.B. Turner
1st Royal Berkshire Regt War Diary (WO 95/1361 PRO)
News Chronicle 21 November 1942
A.J.T. Fleming-Sandes
2nd East Surrey Regt War Diary (WO 95/2279 PRO)
Daily Mail Date unknown
The Times May 1961
Daily Telegraph and Morning Post 26 May 1961
Daily Telegraph 26 May 1961
Teignmouth Post and Gazette 2 June 1961
Illustra
ted London News 3 June 1961
The Times 4 August 1961
S. Harvey
1st York and Lancaster Regt War Diary (WO 95/2275 PRO)
Daily Express 17 August 1953
East Anglian Daily Times 28 January, 25 June and 26 June 1956, 24 September and 28 September 1960
Eastern Daily Press 28 September 1960
Ipswich Evening Star 12 February 1983, 28 February 1986
O. Brooks
3rd Coldstream Guards War Diary (WO 95/1358 PRO)
Morning Post 8 November 1915
Various other un-named newspaper cuttings November 1915
The Times 1 November 1929
Daily Sketch 6 April 1933
Bystander 14 June 1933
Daily Herald 30 October 1933
The Star 3 November 1933
Bath Chronicle 18 November 1933
The Household Brigade Magazine
Windsor Express 16 October 1987
J.C. Raynes
71st Brigade RFA War Diary (WO 95/1923 PRO)
War Weekly 18 December 1915
Sphere 25 December 1915
Daily Telegraph 14 November 1929
Daily Mail 14 November 1929
The Times 14 November 1929
East Anglian Daily Times 14 November 1929
Sheffield Telegraph 14 November 1929
Yorkshire Telegraph 15 November 1929
Yorkshire Evening Post 16 September 1972
J.L. Dawson
Daily Telegraph 17 February 1967
Evening News 25 July 1967
C.G. Vickers
1/7th Notts and Derby Regt War Diary (WO 95/2694 PRO)
The Times 21 October 1972 and 18 March 1982
G.A. Maling
Sunderland Echo 2 March 1940
Cemeteries Services, London Borough of Bromley
A.F.G. Kilby
The Times 8 March 1923
The Stafford Knot October 1969
R.P. Hallowes
4th Middlesex Regt War Diary (WO 95/1422 PRO)
Diary of the Great War (typed manuscript) Lt.-Col. Wollscombe, date unknown
A.A. Burt
Herts Mercury 29 January 1916
Daily Mirror 9 November 1929
Bucks Examiner 14/15 June 1962
1st Herts Regt War Diary (WO 95/1358 PRO)
H. Christian
The Times 19 September 1917
Glasgow Sunday Mail 12 April 1936
The Lion and the Dragon Vol 5 No 7 Spring 1975
http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com
T. Kenny
1st Loyal North Lancs Regt War Diary (WO 95/1270 PRO)
Tobacco 1 December 1929
News of the World 21 July 1940
Lancashire Lad – The Journal of the Lancashire Regiment Winter 1978
J. Caffrey
2nd York and Lancaster Regt War Diary (WO 95/1610 PRO)
Nottingham Journal 19 October 1931 and 20 October 1931
Universe 17 November 1933
Nottingham Evening Post 7 November 1936
Daily Graphic 28 September 1952
S. Meekosha
1/6 West Yorkshire Regt War Diary (WO 95/2794 PRO)
Bradford Telegraph and Argus Various editions October/November 1929
South Wales Echo 20 July 1935
Tobacco 1 February 1937
A.G. Drake
8th Rifle Brigade War Diary (WO 95/1896 PRO)
Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archive
Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives
W. Young
8th East Lancs Regt War Diary (WO 95/2537 PRO)
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Hyde Park, London, 10 July 1915
Capt. Foss and his bombers recapture a British position
Capt. Foss and his bombers recapture a British position.
Daniels and Noble attempting to break through the wire.
Nottingham Castle Victoria Cross Memorial.
Leeds plaque to VC Winners. (photograph by Dave Stowe)
Headstone of Captain Campbell.
Lt Martin’s bombing on Hill 60.
Lt Geary hurrying forward to the trenches on Hill 60.
L/Cpl Fuller at Mansfield with the mayor and the Duchess of Portland.
Hill 60 from The Dump, near the railway, looking south-east.
Capt. Scrimger carrying Capt. Macdonald to safety.
Headstone of Sam Harvey VC (photograph by Mark Brunning)
Pte Lynn manning his machine-gun
Mir Dast with Lord Kitchener.
Cpl Upton dragging in a wounded man on a waterproof sheet.
The night of 20/21 April on Hill 60. (Woolley is throwing a bomb on the right).
VC winners leaving Buckingham Palace on 12 July 1915 (Ripley on right).
Lt Smyth and Sepoy Lal Singh.
VCs Revd Harold Woolley (left) and Sir John Smyth (right) with Gen. Sir Lewis Hamilton.
L/Cpl Angus being helped by Lt Martin and Lord Newlands.
Moonzie War Memorial. (photograph by Jim McGinlay)
Piper Laidlaw and Lt Young rallying their comrades.
Loos, before battle
Loos, after the battle
Sgt Wells leading his men.
2/Lt Hallowes on the parapet, encouraging his men.
Pavilion at the Commonwealth Memorial Gates, London.
Pte Dunsire rescuing a wounded comrade.
Sgt Saunders taking charge of two machine-guns. (He is erroneously pictured wearing a helmet).
Cpl Pollock bombing the enemy in ‘Little Willie’.
A/Sgt Raynes putting his own smoke helmet on Sgt Ayres.