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	RICHARD ANNAND VC
		Annand was a platoon commander with 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry in the 2nd Division sent to man positions on the Dyle, near the village of La Tombe.
		Annand was with D Company covering the road bridge over the Dyle, across which another company of the Durhams had been forced to withdraw before the advancing German army on the afternoon of 14th May, when the bridge was blown.
		Annand led a group of men from his platoon in a counter-attack and, when their small-arms ammunition was exhausted, went forward alone to throw grenades from the edge of the ruined bridge on to the enemy bridging party working below, inflicting some 20 casualties.
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	Richard Annand
		As Richard Annand led the few survivors of his Platoon away from their position in the early hours of 16th May, he learnt that his batman, Private Joseph Hunter of Sunderland, wounded in both his head and legs and unable to walk, had been left behind.
		Brave Captain Richard Annand, 90, received the VC for saving his platoon after it came under heavy attack from the Germans at the River Dyal in Belgium in 1940, when he was a second lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry.
		Richard Annand (between the red coat's) at the unveiling of the VC memorial stone DLI museum.
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		Annand's platoon, in position astride a blown bridge, had beaten off a strong attack the previous night and was now facing the main thrust of an enemy determined to get across the river in strength.
		Annand was invested with the Victoria Cross by King George VI at Buckingham Palace on September 3 1940.
		Richard Wallace Annand, always known as Dickie, was born on November 5 1914 at South Shields, County Durham.
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	Encyclopedia: Richard Wallace Annand
		Richard Wallace Annand ( 5 November 1914 – 24 December 2004) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
		"Dickie" Annand was 25 years old, and a Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Bn., The Durham Light Infantry, British Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
		Later, when the position became hopeless and the platoon was ordered to withdraw, Lieutenant Annand discovered that his batman was wounded and missing.
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	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Captain Richard Annand, VC
		Annand was born in South Shields, the son of a naval lieutenant commander killed in action in 1915.
		Annand's age was acceptable to the army so, in 1938, he was gazetted to the DLI's supplementary reserve.
		Annand went to work at Finchale Abbey training centre for disabled people, near Durham in 1948, and for the next 30 years devoted his life to helping disabled people, especially those who, like him, had hearing difficulties.
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		Captain Richard Wallace {Dickie} Annand, VC, who died 24 December, 2004, aged 90, won the Army's first Victoria Cross of the Second World War when serving with the 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, in Belgium in May 1940.
		Richard Wallace Annand was born 5 November, 1914, son of Lt-Cdr Wallace Moir Annand, Royal Naval Division (who was killed at Gallipoli in 1915), by his wife Dora Elizabeth Chapman, of South Shields, and was educated at Pocklington School, East Yorkshire.
		Richard Annand married in 1940, Shirley Osborne, MBE, JP.
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		A native of South Shields, County Durham, England, he was the first man to win a VC in the war and one of only fourteen living recipients when he passed away at the age of 90.
		Annand was the son of Lieutenant Commander Wallace Annand who was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915.
		When the younger Annand was of age he joined the Royal Navy Reserve as a midshipman, but transferred to the Durham Light Infantry Supplemental Reserve in 1938.
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		Captain Richard Wallace Annand was the first man to win the highest accolade for bravery in the Second World War.
		Captain Annand, who lived at Whitesmocks, Durham, was one of 11 soldiers in the history of the Durham Light Infantry to be awarded the Victoria Cross, and was later awarded the Queen's Silver and Golden Jubilee Medals.
		Captain Annand oversaw the unveiling of the Celebration Stone, in September 2001, which was funded by the DLI veterans' group, The Faithful Inkerman Dinner Club.
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		'''Richard Wallace Annand''' ( 5 November 1914 24 December 2004) was an England English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to United Kingdom British and Commonwealth of Nations Commonwealth forces.
		Later, when the position became hopeless and the platoon was ordered to withdraw, Lieutenant Annand discovered that his Batman (army) batman was wounded and missing.
		He returned at once to the former position and brought him back in a wheelbarrow before fainting from loss of blood.'' This was the first Victoria Cross won by the British Army in the Second World War.
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		He was wounded, but after having his wounds dressed,he made another attack on the enemy position the same evening.
		Later, when the position became hopeless and when Lieutenant Annand's platoon was ordered to withdraw, Lieutenant Annand discovered that his batman was wounded and missing.
		Richard Wallace Annand, soldier, born November 5 1914; died December 24 2004
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		Captain Richard Annand, VC Old soldiers joined family and friends to pay their last respects to a North-East military hero yesterday.
		Capt Annand's Victoria Cross and other medals were carried into the church by Major Chris Lawton MBE, the regimental county secretary of the Light Infantry Association.
		Capt Annand earned his VC when, as a second lieutenant in the DLI's 2nd Battalion, he ignored heavy German fire to rescue his batman in a wheelbarrow, in Belgium, in May 1940.
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		Here is a little bit on my deceased friend, Captain (then) 2nd Lt. Richard Wallace Annand V.C. He was in the 2nd Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry.
		Later, when the position became hopeless and the Platoon was ordered to withdraw, Lt. Annand discovered that his Batman (Aide) was wounded and missing.
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	List of English Victoria Cross recipients - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Henry Burton - 1944; Monte Ceco, Italy
		Richard Basil Brandram Jones - 1916; Vimy, France
		Charles Richard Sharpe - 1915; Rouges Bancs, France
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		I was wondering if anyone here has personally met this man? I have a good friend in England who was able to spend several ours with him recently.
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		On 15th/16th May, 1940, on the South side of the River Dyle, Belgium, Second Lieutenant Annand in command of the platoon astride a bridge that had been blown.
		Ammunition having been consumed Lieutenant Annand moved forward inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy with hand-grenades, all the time under machine gun and mortar fire.
		Later, when the position became hopeless and the platoon was ordered to withdraw, Lieutenant Annand discovered that his batman, Private Joseph Hunter was wounded.
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	List of living Victoria Cross recipients - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		Richard Wallace Annand died on 24 December 2004.
		This page was last modified 19:38, 17 July 2005.
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	Richard Wallace Annand
		Richard Wallace Annand ( 5 November 1914 24 December 2004) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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		I am sorry to say that Richard Wallace Annand died just before xmas eve (2004)
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		The KING has been pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the under-mentioned : â”
		Second Lieutenant Richard Wallace Annand, The Durham Light Infantry.
		For most conspicuous gallantry on the I5th-16th May 1940, when the platoon under his command was on the south side of the River Dyle, astride a blown bridge.
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		CAPTAIN RICHARD WALLACE ANNAND VC DL The vast majority of us here knew Dick Annand personally.
		Recall the words of his Platoon Sergeant “Mr Annand never asked a man to do anything he could do himself”.
		This remarkable man demonstrated in fullness how to bring meaning to “give and not to count the cost”.
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		On May 15, 1940 at the river The Dyle in Belgium dealt Annand the enemy heavy loses with throwing its hand grenades.
		After he had looked after to its several wounds he went the same evening in attack again.
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