VCs of the North - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook VCs of the North write by Alan Whitworth. This book was released on 2015-10-30. VCs of the North available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today the Victoria Cross remains the supreme British award for bravery. It takes precedence over all other awards and decorations. During its 160-year history, since the first medals were given for gallantry during the Crimean War in the 1850s, 1,357 of these medals have been won, and almost fifty of them have gone to the soldiers of Cumbria, Durham and Northumberland . Alan Whitworth, in this carefully researched and revealing account, describes in graphic detail the exploits and the lives of this elite band of heroes. Within this group of Northern VC recipients are a number of outstanding names, including Richard Annand who gained the first VC of the Second World War and Roland Bradford who was one of only four sets of brothers to have secured the VC. He also had the distinction of becoming the youngest general in the British army. But among the roll of the brave whose gallantry and self-sacrifice are celebrated in these pages the reader will find the names and extraordinary deeds of many other men who were either born or bred or lived and died in the North. They will also find the story of the youngest Victoria Cross recipient who won his award aged just nineteen.The stories of these ordinary individuals who have 'performed some signal act of valour or devotion to their country' will be fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in military history in general and in the long military tradition of the North of England.
The First VCs
The First VCs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First VCs write by John Grehan. This book was released on 2016-10-31. The First VCs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the officer ranks and promotion owed more to money than merit. Then came the Crimean War.The incompetence and ineffectiveness of the senior officers contrasted sharply with the bravery of the lower ranks. Fuelled by the reports from the first-ever war correspondents which were read by an increasingly literate public, the mumblings of discontent rapidly grew into a national outcry. Questions were asked in Parliament, answers were demanded by the press why were the heroes of the Alma, Inkerman and the Charge of the Light Brigade not being recognised? Something had be done.That something was the introduction of an award that would be of such prestige it would be sought by all men from the private to the Field Marshal. It would be the highest possible award for valour in the face of the enemy and it bore the name of the Queen for whom the men fought.This is the story of how the first Victoria Crosses were attained in the heat of the most deadly conflict of the nineteenth century. It is also an examination of how the definition of courage, as recognised by the awarding of VCs, evolved, from saving the regimental colours at the Alma to saving a comrade in the No Mans Land before Sevastopol.
FCC Record
FCC Record - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook FCC Record write by United States. Federal Communications Commission. This book was released on 2011-08. FCC Record available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
VCs Handbook
VCs Handbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook VCs Handbook write by Gerald Gliddon. This book was released on 2005-09-28. VCs Handbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the Western Front during the First World War, 490 men won the British Empire's highest award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross. A companion for any visitor to the First World War battlefields in France and Flanders, this reference book lists every VC recipient from 1914 to 1918 in alphabetical order.
The English Reports: Vice-Chancellors' Courts
The English Reports: Vice-Chancellors' Courts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The English Reports: Vice-Chancellors' Courts write by . This book was released on 1905. The English Reports: Vice-Chancellors' Courts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. V. 1-11. House of Lords (1677-1865) -- v. 12-20. Privy Council (including Indian Appeals) (1809-1865) -- v. 21-47. Chancery (including Collateral reports) (1557-1865) -- v. 48-55. Rolls Court (1829-1865) -- v. 56-71. Vice-Chancellors' Courts (1815-1865) -- v. 72-122. King's Bench (1378-1865) -- v. 123-144. Common Pleas (1486-1865) -- v. 145-160. Exchequer (1220-1865) -- v. 161-167. Ecclesiastical (1752-1857), Admiralty (1776-1840), and Probate and Divorce (1858-1865) -- v. 168-169. Crown Cases (1743-1865) -- v. 170-176. Nisi Prius (1688-1867).
