Gold ‘VC’ for a Nurse
Not until 1920 could a Victoria Cross be awarded to a woman, but in 1869 the officers of the 104th Bengal Fusiliers had their own solution for a ‘VC’ award to a courageous nurse.
VC MISCELLANY
Elizabeth Matthews was born in Kent in 1834, the second child in a family of somewhat humble means but a woman who would go on to earn a significant place in British military history.
Marrying Captain Webber Desborough Harris of the 2nd Bengal...
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