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Major Frederick William Lumsden RMA - VC
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: France Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1917 Date/s: 4 April 1917 Brigadier General...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 24, 2021
- 2 min
Captain Lewis ST Halliday - Victoria Cross - 24th June 1900 – China
Halliday was 30 years old, and a captain in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, during the Boxer Rebellion in China when the following deed...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 23, 2021
- 1 min
Captain Edward Banford RMLI - Victoria Cross - Zeebrugge
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Belgium Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1918 Date/s: 23 April 1918 Bamford was 30 years...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 1, 2021
- 3 min
Corporal Thomas Peck Hunter RM - Victoria Cross
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Italy Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1945 Date/s: 9 April 1945 Hunter was 21 years old,...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 2, 2020
- 3 min
Cpl John Prettyjohn - First Royal Marine Victoria Cross - 2nd November 1854 – Battle of Inkerman
John Prettyjohns VC (sometimes misspelled Prettyjohn) (11 June 1823 – 20 January 1887) was the first Royal Marine to win the Victoria...
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Si Biggs
- Jul 13, 2020
- 3 min
Lieutenant George Dare Dowell RMA VC - Viborg, Baltic Sea
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Russia Period/ Conflict: Crimean War Year: 1855 Date/s: 13 July 1855 Dowell was 24 years...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 25, 2020
- 1 min
Captain Halliday RMLI VC - Boxer Rebellion
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: China Period/ Conflict: Boxer Rebellion Year: 1900 Date/s: 24 June 1900 Lewis Stratford...
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Si Biggs
- Jun 6, 2020
- 1 min
Bombardier Thomas Wilkinson RMA VC
Bombardier Thomas Wilkinson RMA VC – Crimea Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Russia Period/ Conflict: Crimean War Year: 1855...
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Si Biggs
- May 31, 2020
- 2 min
Major Francis Harvey RMLI - Battle Of Jutland
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Jutland Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1916 Date/s: 31 May 1916 A long serving Royal...
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Si Biggs
- Apr 29, 2020
- 5 min
Lance Corporal Parker RMLI VC - Gallipoli
Unit/ Formation: Victoria Cross Location: Gallipoli Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1915 Date/s: 30 April 1915 In April 1915, the...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 23, 2020
- 2 min
L/Cpl HE Harden VC (RAMC) - attached to 45 (Royal Marine) Commando - 23rd January 1945 - Netherlands
Henry Eric Harden VC (23 February 1912 – 23 January 1945), 32 years old. Harden was a lance corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps...
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Simon Biggs
- Nov 5, 2019
- 3 min
Corporal John Prettyjohn the First Royal Marine Victoria Cross - 2nd November 1854 – Battle of Inke
John Prettyjohns VC (sometimes misspelled Prettyjohn) (11 June 1823 – 20 January 1887) was the first Royal Marine to win the Victoria...
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Simon Biggs
- Jun 24, 2019
- 2 min
Captain Lewis ST Halliday - Victoria Cross - 24th June 1900 – China
Halliday was 30 years old, and a captain in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, during the Boxer Rebellion in China when the following deed...
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Simon Biggs
- Dec 1, 2018
- 1 min
Pte Stanley Robert McDougall VC (1890-1968) - Pages of the Sea
On 11 November 2018, tens of thousands of people took part in Pages of the Sea – a commissioned art project by filmmaker Danny Boyle,...
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Simon Biggs
- Nov 5, 2018
- 3 min
Corporal John Prettyjohn the First Royal Marine Victoria Cross - 2nd November 1854 – Battle of Inke
John Prettyjohns VC (sometimes misspelled Prettyjohn) (11 June 1823 – 20 January 1887) was the first Royal Marine to win the Victoria...
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Simon Biggs
- Jan 18, 2018
- 3 min
Major Anders Lassen VC - SBS - Lake Commachio 8 - 9th April 1945
On the night of 8th – 9th April 1945 eighteen men from the Special Boat Service set out across Lake Comacchio to attack heavily defended...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 19, 2017
- 2 min
David Samuel Anthony Lord VC, DFC Victoria Cross 19th September 1944 - Battle of Arnhem
As it is my Birthday I though I would remember a VC Winner from today who sacrificed his life for others: David Samuel Anthony Lord VC,...
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Si Biggs
- Aug 30, 2017
- 2 min
Victoria Cross won on the Kokoda Track - Private Bruce Steel Kingsbury VC, Australian 2/14th Infant
High in the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea, in treacherous conditions of ankle deep mud the battle for the Kokoda Track again...
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