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	Royal Regiment of Scotland, Scottish Division, Army
		The Victoria Cross is the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy.
		The Victoria Cross is not a Maltese Cross, but is more accurately described as a cross patté.
		Originally, the metallic materials used in the construction of the Victoria Cross came from gunmetal taken from Russian guns captured in the Crimean War, but since the end of the First World War it has been made from metal taken from captured Chinese guns.
	www.royalregimentofscotland.org.uk /victoriacross.php (313 words)

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	HERALDRY
		Recipients are listed alphabetically under each award, with full date, surname a nd full given names, rank at the time of award, branch of service, ship or establishment, and other awards received.
		Recipients are listed alp h abetically by award, serial number, name, rank at time of award, unit, conflict or action and location, and full gazette date of award.
		Recipients are listed alphabetically, according to registered surname, geographical origin, rank at time of award, ship or branch th e y were serving in, name and type of award, date of recommendation (where available), date of gazette, quotation of the citation, and details of any previous awards, honours or decorations.
	www.4dw.net /royalark/ADDISON/Heraldry.htm (4566 words)

	The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) - Scottish Regiments, 1st Battalion A&SH, National ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Victoria Cross is the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy.
		The first recipient of the Victoria Cross was an Irishman, 20 year old Royal Navy mate, Lt Charles Davis Lucas.
		Originally, the metallic materials used in the construction of the Victoria Cross came from gunmetal taken from Russian guns captured in the Crimean War, but since the end of the First World War it has been made from metal taken from captured Chinese guns.
	www.it-serve.co.uk /argylls/victoriacross.php (434 words)

	The National Archives \| DocumentsOnline \| The Victoria Cross Register
		The Victoria Cross was instituted by Royal Warrant on 29 January 1856 for award to both officers and non-commissioned ranks of the Royal Navy and the Army who, in the presence of the enemy 'shall have performed some signal act of valour...'.
		The Victoria Cross is still Britain's premier award for gallantry in face of the enemy and is worn before all other orders, decorations and medals.
		The Victoria Cross registers may also contain information about when the award was made, by whom and to whom, if it was a posthumous award.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /documentsonline/victoriacross.asp (808 words)

	Capt. Noel G Chavasse,R.A.M.C.,VC and Bar, MC
		The Scottish received the news on 28th October and a celebration ensued, the officers held a dinner for Noel in a chateau at Elverdinghe.
		The Scottish were by this time already in open ground and made good progress towards their first objective and they pushed on towards the Steenbeek, a stream that crossed their route.
		As they crossed it, they were held up by uncut wire in front of them and by heavy machine gun fire from Capricorn Trench.
	www.angelfire.com /trek/stevesgenealogy/notable_kin/noel_chavasse.htm (5009 words)

	Orders, Decorations and Medals - Medals by Country - Medals of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Topham's Victoria Cross is one of only 16 awarded to Canadians in the Second World War and the only one earned by the 6th Airborne Division, despite its record of heavy fighting.
		Corporal Konowal was awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional gallantry in action during the attack on Hill 70 (near Lens) on 22-24 August 1917.
		The Cross of Valour, created in 1972, is the highest of all decorations for bravery and is awarded "for acts of the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme peril".
	www.geocities.com /dco700/Canada1.htm (8183 words)

	Victoria Cross Research - R
		The Victoria Cross was presented to Private Ravenhill by the Duke of York (King George V) at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on 4th June 1901.
		He was presented with the Victoria Cross by General Sir Redvers Buller VC on 4th March 1900 at Ladysmith, South Africa.
		It is known that he was alive in January 1887 because he was reported in the quarterly army list of the recipients of the Victoria Cross for January 1887.
	www.victoriacross.co.uk /descrip_r.html (15773 words)

	The Victoria Cross - South African Military History Society
		The Victoria Cross is a bronze Maltese Cross, made from the metal of two Russian guns captured at Sebastopol, in the Crimea.
		The Victoria Cross could be forfeited for infamous conduct on the part of the recipient.
		This Victoria Cross was gazetted only after those awarded for the action at Rorke's Drift, although it was the first Victoria Cross actually won in South Africa.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol017iu.html (1648 words)

	Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy » The Victoria Cross
		The pieces were commissioned by the Ministry of Information for a propaganda pamphlet illustrating the bravery and selflessness of members of the armed forces.
		This section is by no means an exhaustive list of the Victoria Cross (VC) winners of the Second World War and only covers a limited number of recipients from the years 1939 to 1943.
		The range of pieces does however represent a broad cross section of Empire and Dominion troops with Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, Rhodesians and Indians as well as British VC winners.
	www.lineages.co.uk /2005/06/09/the-victoria-cross (130 words)

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		List of Victoria Cross recipients by Name - S
		List of Victoria Cross recipients by Name - V
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	BRITISH ARMY AND RAF HISTORY
		List of Florence Nightingale Nurses in the Crimea by Stephen Jones
		An excellent site which lists the names and details of officers of the British Army who died in the various campaigns of the period concerned.
		A list of all VC holders with graves in UK with details of locations of graves and biographical information on awards.
	www.angelfire.com /ga/BobSanders/ARMYLINKS.html (885 words)

	List of web sites about Regional: United Kingdom
		Scottish Footballers in the Great War - A brief history of the players of the Heart of Midlothian, Raith Rovers, Kilmarnock, Celtic, Rangers, Clyde, Ayr United and others who served in the war.
		The Roll of Honour - A list of Swavesey men who were killed in action, or who died from wounds or disease in the Great War.
		Victoria Cross Reference - Information on the award, and the ability to search by name, unit, rank, location of deed, campaign, nationality, and living recipients.
	www.kub.it /dir/477231 (840 words)

	Orders and decorations: History (British Empire and Commonwealth)
		Note: This is not a comprehensive list, but rather reflects the most important awards, and those most likely to occur as initialisms appended to the names of military officers.
		As such it was the third ranking soldier's decoration for gallantry after the Victoria Cross and the DCM, and equivalent to the Military Cross awarded to commissioned officers.
		Scottish regiments throughout the Commonwealth make much use of the badge and motto, and the Star of the Order constitutes the rank star (pip) for officers of the Scots Guards.
	www.regiments.org /biography/orddec-h.htm (1403 words)

	Bruce Mcgaw
		Samuel McGaw 1: '''Samuel McGaw ''' was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria 7: moaful, Ashanti (now Ghana), Lance-Sergeant McGaw led his section through the bush in a most excell
		List of Victoria Cross recipients by Name - M 66: * Samuel McGaw - 1874; Battle of Amoaful, Ashanti (now Ghana)
		List of Scottish Victoria Cross recipients 132: * Samuel McGaw - 1874; Battle of Amoaful, Ashanti (now Ghana)
	www.lottery-news.net /dust46089-bruce_mcgaw.html (292 words)

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		There was a moment or two of doubt and bewilderment, but Hamilton with the help of a few junior officers rallied the waverers, and earned the Victoria Cross, which on account of his high military rank was withheld from him; the guns were recovered, the laager rushed, and the tactical victory was complete.
		Hildyard's Brigade was ordered to march in the direction of the "iron bridge,"[21] to cross at that point, and then to "seize the kopjes north of the iron bridge." The attack on the enemy's right, which was believed to be weak, was assigned to Hart's Irish Brigade.
		He was instructed to cross the Tugela at a bridle drift about two miles west of Colenso and work down the left bank towards the occupied kopjes.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/5/6/9/15699/15699.txt (17405 words)

	List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The following lists detail the Victoria Cross recipients by nationality.
		List of Victoria Cross recipients of uncertain Nationality...
		Lists of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Victoria_Cross_recipients_by_nationality (70 words)

	Toadfire.com - borden_battery - CEF Study Group - Recommended Great War Websites
		For his courage Konowal was awarded the Victoria Cross by King George V who remarked: "Your Exploit is one of the most daring and heroic in the history of my army.
		List of Commanding Officers (Feb 1917-Mar 1918), a Roll of Honour compiled from the Canadian Virtual War Memorial, and a List of Casualties compiled from the War Diaries.
		A brief discussion of the Origins of the Company, a list of Officers (many of whom were members of the 86th Machine Gun Battalion) and a list of Other Men (compiled from the War Diaries), and a Roll of Honor consisting of a single entry extracted from the Canadian Book of Remembrance.
	www.toadfire.com /blog_full.jsp?blogID=1408 (15792 words)

	Auction Activity
		The Victoria Cross awarded to Private William Mariner (the alias of William Wignall) of KRRC for his single-handed bombing attack on a German machine gun emplacement is to be auctioned by Spink on 23rd November.
		Morton and Eden are auctioning the Victoria Cross awarded to John Pearson of the 8th Hussars for his gallantry during the charge at Gwalior in 1858.
		The Victoria Cross awarded to Corporal Filip Konowal, 47th British Columbia Regt is to be auctioned by Jeffrey Hoare Auctions of London, Ontario on 31 May. There are, however, moves to prevent this as the Cross "disappeared" from the Canadian War Museum.
	www.victoriacrosssociety.com /auctions.htm (5546 words)

	Victoria Cross :: View topic - Unknown VC?
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		A majority of Scottish winners were from the 78th Highlanders and got it for actions during the Indian Mutiny (1858).
		Some of the members there think it could be a "gallantry" cross that resembles the VC in shape but not in detail.
	www.dvdhoven.nl /Victoria-Cross/viewtopic.php?p=2576 (943 words)

	Orders, Decorations and Medals - Medals by Country - Medals of Britain - Campaign Medals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		All of the individuals are listed by Regiment alphabetically and medal entitlements as stated on the medal rolls are listed and cited.
		The Scottish leader of a battle to win a campaign medal for veterans of the wartime Arctic convoys reacted with fury last night to a proposal to award them a special Arctic Emblem.
		And a delighted Mr Pickles, the recipient of an Atlantic Star medal which was previously claimed to cover the Arctic missions, reckons the special recognition from his own country is long overdue.
	www.geocities.com /dco700/Britain3.htm (10301 words)

	Free Surname Search : Yorkshire
		Recipients of the Victoria Cross Associated with the North-East of England : Instituted in 1856, the Victoria Cross is the highest, and most highly prized, British and Commonwealth military decoration to be awarded.
		Topic: A mailing list for those whose ancestors moved between the counties of Durham and Yorkshire, England, including discussion of the history and migration patterns of the region.
		Topic: A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in the area of the Tees River or Tees Dale (valley) in Northern England, previously within the Scottish Border and former Northumbria Kingdom.
	www.freesurnamesearch.com /search/uk/yks.html (1215 words)

	Knights
		Honours are listed first in descending order of precedence, followed by degrees and memberships of learned societies in ascending order.
		Obsolete positions are not listed unless recipients, who continue to use the post-nominal even after the order becomes obsolete, are still living.
		During Queen Victoria's reign, a number of new orders were created, including two which rewarded service in India - the Order of the Star of India and the Order of the Indian Empire.
	home.earthlink.net /~ronaldgcus/Knights.htm (2833 words)

	George Cross Database - Bibliographic list of general and more specific GC books and publications
		Lists all direct awards of the George Cross in WW2 and the EGM exchanges.
		The magazine has published many profiles of recipients, all of which were used in the inaugural edition of the Register of the GC published in 1985 and in the second edition in 1990.
		Contains an overview of the George Cross and the George Medal from inception to 1977, lists of recipients, the Royal Warrants and summary tables.
	www.gc-database.co.uk /biblio.htm (4163 words)

	IAN EDIN MENTEITH A SEARCH FOR THE PAST
		Note the discrepancy in the rifle units between the two forms, and that no claim to overseas service is made in the 1916 record.
		Allowing for DSM/DCM confusion, as stated a list of DCM recipients is attached.
		Lists of assisted migrants for the same period.
	www.monteith.org /ian_edin_menteith.htm (1227 words)

	Links
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		Scottish First Names -- Here are the origins of over a 100 forenames or first names found in Scotland today.
		The Victoria Cross is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
	mackenzie.00family.com /links.htm (1360 words)

	The Monarchist League Of Canada
		WESTMINSTER ABBEY, May 29 At the biennial Service of Remembrance for the recipients of the Victoria Cross and the George Cross, attended by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, the Dean of Westminster announced that a permanent memorial to "the bravest of the brave" would be installed in the Abbey.
		VICTORIA, June 28 The Prime Minister's Office announced that the Hon Iona Campagnolo, PC, CM, OBC, is to be British Columbia's next Lieutenant Governor, in succession to the Hon.
		Scottish history, heraldry, shooting and sailing were amongst his pursuits; he always maintained a great sense of family, and was invariably present on the larger Royal occasions when he would complain of having to shed tweed for a dinner jacket!
	www.monarchist.ca /cmn/summer0125.htm (4245 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Highest honours for Afghan heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A SCOTTISH soldier killed in Afghanistan trying to save the life of a wounded comrade injured in a mine explosion is to be posthumously awarded the George Cross for bravery.
		It will be the first time a posthumous Victoria Cross has been awarded since the Falklands conflict, nearly 25 years ago.
		The awards for the two paratroopers head a list of 134 service-men and women to be honoured with operational awards for their services, principally in Iraq and Afghanistan.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1861302006 (1087 words)

	Victoria Cross
		Lieutenant Walker was awarded the Victoria Cross for a particularly courageous action at the battle of Inkerman on November 5
		The institution of the Victoria Cross was made retrospective to the commencement of the Crimean War.
		Besides the Victoria Cross he was awarded the medal of Distinguished Conduct in the Field.
	www.armynavyairforce.co.uk /victoria_cross.htm (10051 words)

	Military History - Book List
		These provide a visible indication both of the bravery of the recipient and of its recognition by the government and nation.
		It gives a brief history of each of the former county regiments, lists the battle honours on their Colours, their marches, customs, Victoria Crosses, nicknames, badges, facings, mottoes and memorials and describes their amalgamations and later lineage.
		The Victoria Cross, established in 1856 during the Crimean War, has remained to this day the highest British award ‘for valour’ and is perhaps the most prestigious gallantry medal in the world.
	www.shirebooks.co.uk /Military/military-bl.htm (3504 words)

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