AMAZING: Captain Charles Upham, The Only Combat Soldier To Be Awarded The Victoria Cross & Bar. Personally Responsible for Destroying a German Tank and Several Guns and Vehicles with Hand Grenades
When you have thrown on your first Victoria Cross, you have entered an elite fraternity in the history of war that commands the respect of…
To Throw His Grenade He Crawled To Within 5 Meters of Taliban Sniper When He Was Hit By A Bullet And Killed By His Own Grenade, Awarded VC
Not all war stories have a happy ending and, in fact, one might make the case that most do not. This is ever truer when…
Even Germans Recommended Him For VC: Irish Guard Grabbed The Machine Gun From Disabled Tank, Held Jerries At Bay For 20 Minutes
A nation can desire for a war to be over all they want, but the inevitable fact of war is that the enemy always gets…
VC: Killed Leading The Assault On Argentines at Goose Green – Lt. Colonel H Jones Led from the Front
Perhaps it is because the war only lasted ten weeks and occurred during a time period where the US-Soviet Cold War was the backdrop for…
Come & Sink us Then! Captain Sacrifices his Boat & Crew but Sinks the U-Boat. Was Awarded the VC
At the end of July 1918 the British Royal Navy vessel HMS Stock Force was under the command of Lieutenant Harold Auten of the Royal…
The Pine Street Boys – Three Victoria Cross Awardees From The Same Street!
Corporal Lionel “Leo” Beaumaurice Clarke, Sergeant-Major Frederick William Hall, and Lieutenant Robert Shankland all received Victoria Crosses for their heroic deeds in WWI. All three…
British Rambo of the Somme: “If I’ve got to be killed, I’ll die fighting not digging.”
Thomas Alfred Jones was nicknamed “Dodger” in childhood because he was good at soccer. Unfortunately, they quickly changed that to “Todger” – which is British…
AMAZING: Captain Charles Upham remains the only combatant soldier to have received the Victoria Cross & Bar. Personally responsible for destroying a German tank and several guns and vehicles with hand grenade
When you have thrown on your first Victoria Cross, you have entered an elite fraternity in the history of war that commands the respect of…
James Collis: The War Hero Stripped Off of His Victoria Cross
James Collis was awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery during the Second Afghan War in 1881. However, James Collis also became one of the only…
The VC Medal ‘Forgotten’ by the Brighton Museum for Six Decades
Brighton Museum rediscovers a forgotten Victoria Cross medal of WWI hero Major George Godfrey Massy Wheeler which has been in their care for six decades. The…
Graves of Victoria Cross Recipients to Be Fixed Up
Many brave soldiers won the Victoria Cross during the First World War for their heroism, but today many of their graves are in disrepair. To…
Stan Hollis, WWII Recipient of the Victoria Cross
Given its high distinction, the Victoria Cross is not handed out to just anybody. It is given for extreme heroics so noble that even the…