Victoria Cross - 8 Dez 2023
A Definitive Guide to Britain’s Supreme Gallantry Award Since 1856
Welcome
ANDY SAUNDERS – EDITOR
Foreword
The First Aviator VC
The Demon of Mafeking
Plucky Action
First Indian VC
“The Best English Flying Man”
Q-Ship Gallantry
Zulus! Thousands of ‘Em!
Disregard for own Life
Republican VC
Shabbiest of Awards
Collective Gratitude
Zeppelin Killer
Duty Called me to Obey
Royal Warrant
Victorian Hero
Courageous Rescue
The Boy VC
Defining Valour
Leading Tanks on Horseback
No Ordinary Courage
Flying Valour
Wars of Empire
First Army VC
Stand By To Ram
Acknowledgements:
Refused to be Beaten
Valour Remembered
Suicidal Valour
Retrospective Australian VC
Stone-Throwing Maˉori Hero
Epilogue
A Brilliant Fighting Spirit
Despising the Heavy Odds
Monte Cassino VC
One-Armed Hero
Battle of Britain VC
School of Heroes
Wing Walking VC
D-Day VC
Vietnam
Unquestioned Valour
‘Lost’ VC Discovered
Falklands
Making the VC
Arnhem Courage
Danish Hero
With God by his Side
No Normal Battle
An Incomparable Example
Too Magnificent for Words
Fact File
Gold ‘VC’ for a Nurse
The Thames VC
VC Gallery
Foreword by Lord Ashcroft
Shabbiest of all Prizes
Defining Valour
More Naval Heroism
First Army VC
The Demon of Mafeking
Battle of Game Tree Fort
London Gazette Citation
Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts VC
“Zulus! Thousands of ’em”
Wars of Empire
No Ordinary Courage
First VCs of the War
Plucky Action at Dar-es-Salaam
Henry Peel Ritchie’s VC Citation
The First Aviator VC
London Gazette Citation
First Indian VC
Zeppelin Killer
London Gazette
Disregard For Own Life
“The Best English Flying Man”
Albert Ball, VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC
London Gazette, 8 June 1917
Flying Valour
Captain (acting Major) Edward Corringham Mannock, DSO & two bars, M.C and bar
Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Lees, VC, OBE, MC, AFC
Ferdinand Maurice Felix West, VC, CBE, MC
AIR VCS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Q-Ship Gallantry
SCHOONER Q-SHIP VC
Leading Tanks on Horseback
Victoria Cross Whippet Tank
London Gazette Citation
Collective Gratitude
VC
Precedent set by Queen Victoria
The Boy VC
Another Jutland VC
London Gazette Citation
Duty Called me to Obey
London Gazette Citation
The Other Double VC Recipients
Rescue by Air from Cavalry
The Irish Republican VC
The London Gazette, 31 January 1919
With God by his Side
London Gazette Citation
VC
Danish Hero
London Gazette Citation
Too Magnificent for Words
London Gazette, 3 September 1940
Despising the Heavy Odds
Battle of Britain VC
London Gazette Citation
No Normal Battle
War Correspondent Alexander Berry Austin
London Gazette Citation
Suicidal Valour
The King’s ‘Private Army’
Stone-Throwing Māori Hero
London Gazette Citation
One-Armed Hero
London Gazette 20 May 1949
D-Day Hero
London Gazette Citation
Aircraft of the USAF in Europe
The Blitz in Colour
Tanks of World War II
The Battle of Britain in Colour
Arnhem Courage
Tank Hunter VC
‘Local Hero’ Film
London Gazette Citation
Stand-by to Ram!
London Gazette Citation, 6 July 1945
A Brilliant Fighting Spirit
London Gazette Citation
Monte Cassino VC – Heroism and Tragedy
Gallant Act
Wing Walking VC
Major Herbert Augustine Carter, VC
A Gallery of Heroes
Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson, VC, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar
Rear Admiral Anthony Cecil Capel Miers, VC, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar
Major Edward Corringham Mannock, VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC & Bar
Colonel Archibald Cecil Thomas White, VC, MC
Sir Tasker Watkins, VC, GBE, DL
Lieutenant Colonel David Vivian Currie, VC
Vice Admiral Richard Bell Davies, VC, CB, DSO, AFC
Captain Arthur Moore Lascelles, VC, MC
Gold ‘VC’ for a Nurse
The Thames VC
‘Lost’ VC Discovered
Metal for Mettle
The ‘New’ Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Victoria Cross
Only Living New Zealand VC Holder
Valour Remembered
VICTORIA CROSS PAVING STONES
Retrospective Australian VC
London Gazette Citation
An Incomparable Example
School of Heroes
Exceptional Personal Bravery
London Gazette Citation
Reckless Bravery
Unquestioned Valour
London Gazette Citation
Refused to be Beaten
Colour Sergeant Joshua Mark Leakey
London Gazette Citation
Corporal Bryan James Budd
Victoria Cross – The Facts
For Valour
THE LAST GREAT CAVALRY CHARGE
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