NonXMP · @steveirons
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This link provides details of all of the 627 Victoria Cross recipients during the Great War. Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse was a double VC recipient. Photographs are presented where known.

livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.or

@the-great-war

#genealogy #GreatWar #ww1 #wikitree #history #worldwar1 #familyhistory #ancestorian #vc #VictoriaCross

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๐ŸฆŠFoxiMax #216 5/8
foximax.com/

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#foximax #dfc #dso #VictoriaCross

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Clare · @NunavutBirder
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After posting Will Bird's description of his friend's death by the Spanish Flu, I was going to tell the story of Alan Arnett McLeod. A favourite Great War story of mine, about Canada's youngest Victoria Cross earner, valour, the Great War, and the flu. But its probably a lot easier to link to post I wrote about him on my long dead blog. It is in two parts

kiggavik.typepad.com/the_house

#VictoriaCross #ww1 #valour #SpanishFlu #greatwar

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M. Grรฉgoire · @mpjgregoire
355 followers · 15413 posts · Server mamot.fr

@canadaehx Every Canadian VC winner deserves a Heritage Moment.

#VictoriaCross #provalore

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Ian Simpson · @Ian_G_Simpson
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Memorial slab in Warrender Park Crescent outside the family home of Lt William Bruce VC of the 59th Scinde Rifles who was killed at Givenchy on 19 Dec 1914 aged 24. His is held by his alma mater Victoria College, Jersey.

#edinburgh #VictoriaCross #Marchmont #bruntsfield

Last updated 2 years ago

M. Grรฉgoire · @mpjgregoire
325 followers · 14784 posts · Server mamot.fr

Do some of the Canadians who fought in Afghanistan deserve the ?

No Canadian has been awarded a since .

cbc.ca/news/politics/victoria-


#cbc #military #wwii #vc #VictoriaCross

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James Carver · @JamesJimCarver
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Having handled this, I have to say that it is truly magnificent. The skill and craftsmanship is something truly to behold.
RT @NoonansAuctions: A Presentation Scroll given to Captain W. J. Symons, V.C.
"For most conspicuous bravery on the night of the 8-9 August, 1915, at Lone Pine trenches, in the Gallipoli Peninsula"
12 October โ€ฆ

๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ”—: nitter.eu/JamesJimCarver/statu

#VictoriaCross #Gallipoli #orders #medals #militaria #decorations #auction #VC #order

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James Carver · @JamesJimCarver
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An immense privilege to handle a truly historical medal. This is the awarded to a civilian, Thomas Henry Kavanagh, for his valour during the Siege of Luckow on 8th November 1857. It sold today in our rooms for a world record price of ยฃ930,000. @NoonansAuctions

๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ”—: nitter.eu/JamesJimCarver/statu

#VictoriaCross

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James Carver · @JamesJimCarver
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RT @NoonansAuctions: TOMORROW at 10am
Outstanding Indian Mutiny medal awarded to Assistant- H. M. Greenhow, 1st Oudh Irregular Cavalry, an original Defender recommended for the , he was the last surviving Surgeon of the Defence of Lucknow
noonans.co.uk/

๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ”—: nitter.eu/JamesJimCarver/statu

#medal #auction #Surgeon #VictoriaCross

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