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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military award ...
Following extraordinary acts of bravery at the Battle of Pozières in WWI, Sgt. Martin O'Meara was awarded a Victoria Cross. Eighty years after his death, the cross will be the first to leave Australia ...
Britain's last surviving World War Two Victoria Cross recipient, John Cruickshank, has died aged 105. The flight lieutenant, from Aberdeen, earned the honour for an attack on a German U-Boat while ...
The first Victoria Cross awarded to a civilian, an Irishman from Co Westmeath, has been bought at auction for a world record-breaking €1 million. The medal, Britain's greatest military honor, sold at ...
A city's three Victoria Cross recipients are to be honoured as part its centenary year Remembrance ceremonies. Tributes will be paid to the extraordinary courage of L/Sgt John Baskeyfield, L/Sgt John ...
Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain's highest military ...