Authors
CH Frisby, Viscount Gort, SL Honey, TN Jackson, GF Kerr, GT Lyall, T Neely, MF Gregg, L McGuffie, H Tandey, E Seaman, BW Vann, BA Wark, J MacGregor, J Crichton, J Ryan, RV Gorle, W Merrifield, FC Riggs, WH Johnson, J Maxwell, WH Coltman, GM Ingram, J Towers, JH Williams, CN Mitchell, WE Holmes, WL Algie, F Lester, HB Wood, J Johnson, J McPhie, M Moffatt, J O'Neill, T Ricketts, RE Elcock, HA Curtis, JB Daykins, AR Wilkinson, DS McGregor, FG Miles, H Greenwood, FW Hedges, WD Bissett, N Harvey, T Caldwell, H Cairns, J Clarke, W Amey, A Archibald, G de CE Findlay, DG Johnson, J Kirk, JN Marshall, AHS Waters, BM Cloutman
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The History Press have decided to re-issue the VCs of the First World War series in new editions and I have taken advantage of this decision by revising and updating the texts of the current volume.
Since the initial research for this book was carried out fifteen years ago, there has been an increasing interest in and awareness of the stories and lives of the men who were awarded the nation's and the Commonwealth's highest military honour. Evidence of this can be found in the amount of new books being published on the subject: the reissuing of servicemen's records by the National Archives and the accessibility of other records of family history, which are now available via the magazine Ancestry, and from other sources. The Internet has also played a major part, although information received using this method should always be verified by cross-checking. Finally, the founding of the Victoria Cross Society in 2002 by …
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