I don't know if this has been mentioned here, but the guys that did a bayonet charge are also apparently being looked at as possible VC awardees.
I've been to Fort George and read some of the stories of VC awardees and quite frankly, the stuff they pull off puts Rambo and any other Hollywood "soldier" to shame. These guys basically charge against whole platoons of men and machine gun fire and don't give a shit for their safety. I recall one guy in WWI singlehandedly took out a machingun bunker with his Webley revolver and a grenade!
And yes, koji's right. I don't know where the HMS Queen Vic thing came from, but everything I have seen says the cannons were from Sevastopol.
Here's a bookmark I've had about Rorke's Drift where the highest number of VCs were given out.
Possible Victoria Cross from Iraq......
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I always liked the story of Fusilier Jefferson in Italy, who charged into the open with a PIAT, and firing from the hip knocked out two Tiger tanks at close range.Admiral Valdemar wrote:
I've been to Fort George and read some of the stories of VC awardees and quite frankly, the stuff they pull off puts Rambo and any other Hollywood "soldier" to shame. These guys basically charge against whole platoons of men and machine gun fire and don't give a shit for their safety. I recall one guy in WWI singlehandedly took out a machingun bunker with his Webley revolver and a grenade!
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I believe that one was mentioned there too alongside a PIAT exhibit to boot even though it wasn't from the regiments that are stationed there ordinarily, there seemed far too many VC stories to be purely from that area. It's humbling stuff to read the sacrifices though of those that died and those that, against all odds, made it. Heroes do exist and that's reassuring in this age.Sea Skimmer wrote:I always liked the story of Fusilier Jefferson in Italy, who charged into the open with a PIAT, and firing from the hip knocked out two Tiger tanks at close range.Admiral Valdemar wrote:
I've been to Fort George and read some of the stories of VC awardees and quite frankly, the stuff they pull off puts Rambo and any other Hollywood "soldier" to shame. These guys basically charge against whole platoons of men and machine gun fire and don't give a shit for their safety. I recall one guy in WWI singlehandedly took out a machingun bunker with his Webley revolver and a grenade!