The Post of Honour. Richard Wilson

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       Richard Wilson

      The Post of Honour

      Stories of Daring Deeds Done by Men of the British Empire in the Great War

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664575265

Table of Contents

       AUTHOR’S NOTE

       INTRODUCTION

       THE VICTORIA CROSS

       CAPTAIN GRENFELL AND THE CHARGE OF THE LANCERS

       BRITISH SAILORS WHO KNEW HOW TO DIE

       SOME OF THE FIRST V.C.’S

       THE SPIRIT OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

       THE MESSENGERS

       THE STORY OF CORPORAL HOLMES

       THE MEN OF THE FIRST LINE

       LIEUTENANT LEACH AND SERGEANT HOGAN

       WILSON, O’LEARY, AND MARTIN-LEAKE

       THE CANADIAN SCOTTISH

       THE CANADIAN SPIRIT

       THE ADVENTURES OF THE KENT

       THE LANCASHIRE LANDING

       COMMANDER UNWIN AND THE TWO MIDSHIPMEN

       ANZAC

       SUBMARINES IN THE DARDANELLES

       WARNEFORD AND THE ZEPPELIN

       SMITH AND FORSHAW: TWO HEROES OF GALLIPOLI

       THE STORY OF EDITH CAVELL

       JACK CORNWELL, THE BOY WHO “CARRIED ON”

       HEROES OF LOOS

       HOW MOORHOUSE BROUGHT IN HIS REPORT

       LORAINE’S FIGHT IN THE AIR

       “A GLORIOUS BAND”

       THE WORK OF THE MINE-SWEEPERS

       “THE PADRE”

       LIEUTENANT ROBINSON AND THE ZEPPELIN

       THE CANADIANS AT VIMY RIDGE

       HEROES OF A HOSPITAL SHIP

       ALONG THE “V.C. WALK”

       MIDSHIPMAN GYLES AND THE GERMAN BOARDERS

       HOW MAN MADE AN EARTHQUAKE

       “WHEN CAN THEIR GLORY FADE?”

       “THE HEART OF A LION”

       IN MEMORIAM

AUTHOR’S NOTE

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      The author has used a large number of sources—newspapers, official reports, private letters and diaries, as well as books—in gathering the facts for these simple stories. Acknowledgments have been made wherever it was possible to trace the source, and indulgence is asked if through inadvertence or inability to find the original report any requisite acknowledgment has been omitted. Very meagre particulars of most of these brave deeds are at present available, for the British V.C. does not talk of his exploits. But such facts as are actually known ought surely to be given the widest possible publicity, especially in the schools of the Empire.

      “If I should die, think only this of me,

       That there’s some corner of a foreign field

       That is for ever England.”

      Rupert Brooke.

      “Will you at least try, if I am killed, not to let the things I have loved cause you pain, but rather to get increased enjoyment from the Sussex Downs, or from Janie singing folk-songs, because I have found such joy in them, and in that way the joy I have found can continue to live.”

      Letter to his Mother, from a young British

       officer who was killed in action.

      “O ye who fell, mistake not our warm tears,

       We would not wish you back lest we should see

       Your souls defiled by undistinguished years.”

      Charles Vincent.

INTRODUCTION

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