Index to Victoria Cross Journals Nos 1 – 12 October 2003

Index to the Journals of the Victoria Cross Society

Nos 1 – 12 October 2002/March 2008

The following is a guide to the contents of the first 12 Journals of the Society to mark the 6^th Anniversary of the publication in March 2008

. In this listing the following items have largely been disregarded – Editorials, Advertisements and Book Reviews.

Multiple entries may be found where items have been cross referenced for convenience

References have been kept simple e.g. 1-10/16 = Issue 1 pp10-16

**NEW – where an article encompasses notes or comments on several VC recipients only the more prominent recipients have been noted

This Index will be updated with each subsequent issue of the Journal

The author invites notification of any unintentional omission, amendment, addition or suggestions for improvement

tom.queenscross@talktalk.net

ARTEFACTS and EPHEMERA

Paintings from the Victoria Cross Gallery [Desanges] 4 – 7/11 [Full list of paintings]

Presentation Sword [WD Steuart] 11 - 20

Unknown VC banner [picture] 10 - 19

VC Art at the National Archives 7 – 7/8

VC Paintings of Terence Cuneo, The 12 – 52/60 [9 Illustrated]

VC Philatelic commemorative covers 2 – 46, 5 – 54/55

VC Photographs – 150^th Anniversary [availability] 9 – 2/3

VC Photographs – Johnson Beharry [availability] 8 – 23

Victoria Cross Action Prints 10 – 52

Victoria Cross Society Lapel Badge 3 – 3, 6/7/8/9/10 – 1

Victoria Cross Society Pen 11 – 1

Video – VC/GC Memorial Unveiling 14 May 2003 3 - 5

PAINTINGS – VC actions [Cuneo]

Barrett JC 1918 12 – 54

Cheshire GL 1944 12 – 59

Clifford H. 1854 12 - 60

Hardy TB [Presentation of VC] 12 – 56

Le Cateau 1914 [Saving the Guns] 12 - 57

Lyell, The Lord 1943 12 – 58

Smith P. 1855 12 - 54

Stokes J. 1945 12 - 55

Turner VB 1942 12 - 53

OTHERS

Kenneally J. 1943 12 - 48

Shields R. [Desanges] 12 - 12

ARTICLES –

10 VCs in a VC10 11 – 58/60

13 Tasmanian VCs Honoured 3 – 9 [Nominal Roll]

Account of the Victoria Cross Dinner 9 Nov 1929 6 – 36/38

All for Valour [Brunt] 10 – 54/57

Anatomy of a Wartime Disaster [Malcolm] 4 – 43/50

Anglo-Persian War 1856-1857, The [Wood JA] 3 – 12/14

Anzio VC [Rogers M.] 8 – 58/59

Army’s only Naval VC, The [Evelyn Wood] 12 – 19/25

As Brave as They Come [Greenwood] 2 – 23

Assault on the Great Redan 7 – 9/12

Australia’s First VC [Jacka] 1 – 26/28

Australia’s First Winner of the Victoria Cross [Howse] 3 – 24/26

Australia’s Youngest VC [Jackson JW] 4 – 38/42

Bayard of South Africa, The [Redvers Buller] 9 – 9/13

Bedside Investiture, A [Brooks O.] 6 – 32/35

Belated Recognition for Pompey VC [Goate] 4 – 6

Bhanubhakta Gurung VC 1921 – 2008 [Obituary] 12 – 2/3

Blackpool’s First VC [Boughey] 5 – 36/37

Bodmin’s Links to the VC [Finn] 11 – 53/54

Bodmin’s Links to the VC Part 2 [Ervine-Andrews] 12 – 61/62

Bridge Over Troubled Water Sir Brett Cloutman VC MC QC KBE 12 – 38/42

British Unknown Warrior, The 12 – 43/45

Canada’s First WWI VC [Fisher F] 3 – 35/40

Canada’s Top Ace [Bishop] 11 – 46/49

Captured Russian & Chinese Heavy Guns 1854-60 9 – 41

Cecil Sewell – Tank VC 8 – 58/50

Century of Valour – The VC Centenary Celebrations of 1956 8 – 14/16

Ceremony at Redoubt Fortress 28 Jun 2003 3 – 6

Charles Davis Lucas and the Byng Family 11 – 12/16

Charles Lucas – The First VC 5 – 7/9

Charles Lucas VC – Postscript 6 – 2/3

Chavasse Farm 8 – 24/27 [Pt I], 9 – 19/22 [Pt II]

Colonial Frontier War VC [WD Wright] 12 – 29/31

Colonial VCs of the Zulu War [Barker W, Schiess, D’Arcy] 4 – 19/22

Common Man Who Walked with Kings [Cutler] 10 - 60

Cover Me As I Go Forward! [French JA] 4 – 51/52

David Harvey – A Monument to Courage 5 – 6/7

Delhi Magazine VCs, The 10 - 8/9

Derbyshire VC, A, Charles Stone VC MM 12 – 35/37

Diana Condell IWM Curator – An Appreciation 11 - 11

Disgraced hero [Colliss J.] 8 – 35/36

Double VC? – [Lane] 4 – 15/18 [Pt I], 5 – 22/26 [Pt II]

Early Naval VC Ribbons, The 10 - 53

East African Victoria Cross, An [Dartnell WT] 7 – 28/30

Edward Robinson VC 12 – 15/18

Extraordinary Career of Patrick Roddy, The 8 – 12/13

Fame of Henry Hook VC 5 – 19/21

Family Donate VC to Museum [Bushell] 3 – 7/8

Farewell to a Hero Who Knew No Fear [Annand] 6 - 55

Fateful Encounter of Private Henry Tandey, The 2 – 24/26

Fearless Fighter – Tender Romantic [Pollard] 10 - 39/46

Fighter Command’s Only VC [Nicolson] 2 – 31/34

Fighting General, A [Congreve W.] 7 – 25/27

Fighting Parson, The [Adams] 10 - 26/29

First Award to the Army Medical Department 2 – 3/4

First Gazetted VC, The [Buckley] 9 – 6/8

First VC of the Boer War [Fitzclarence] 2 – 14/16

First VC of the First World War. The [Dease] 1 – 21/25

First VC of the Second World War [Roope] 9 – 42/44

First Victim of the Cresta Run [Pennell] 10 - 30/33

Fitzgerald/Roots VC Mystery, The [Fitzgerald R] 6 – 15

Forgotten Hero Rediscovered [Sayer] 10 - 47/51

Friendly Fire and the Victoria Cross – A Reality Check 11 – 61 [Trooper Finney GC]

From Court Martial to Buckingham Palace [Kelliher] 2 – 43/46

From Victoria Cross to Red Cross [Lindsay] 6 – 4/7

Gallantry, Patronage and Cover-ups – The Zulu War VCs 1 – 17/20

George Strong VC – Hero of the Trenches 2 – 5/7

Glosters at Imjin River – Two VCs and a GC 7 – 46/51

Gobar Singh Negi Fair Scaled Down 7 – 35/36

Government Fails to Build on Big Event [Gobar Singh Negi] 7 – 35/36

Great War & Nine VCs 8 – 24/27 [Pt I], 9 – 19/22 [Pt II]

Greatest Stand Firm at the Height of the Storm, The [Stokes] 1 – 34/36

Gurkha Museum Displays Burma VCs 4 - 4/5

Hancocks – The VC Jeweller 11 – 9/11

Hardship for Old Heroes [Trewavas] 5 - 48

He Did His Duty to the Last [Swales] 6 – 42/44

Henry Dalziel Queensland VC 12 – 32/34

Hero of Delhi Ridge [Johnes] 10 - 10/13

Hero of Intombe Drift [Booth A] 11 – 36/39

Hero of Lucknow [Kavanagh] 10 - 14/17 [Pt I], 11 – 30/34 [Pt II]

Hero of Messines [Carroll J.] 3 – 41/44

Hero of the Falaise Gap, The [Currie D.] 9 – 47/48

How a Right can make a Wrong [Tandey] 2 – 24/26

I Got Them All [Harman JP] 7 – 37/41

I Have Another [Joseph Farmer] 12 – 26/28

In Memoriam – Charles Upham VC & Bar 11 – 62/63

Indian Army’s First VCs, The [Wood JA] 3 – 12/14 [Pt I]

Ireland Honours Forgotten VC [Coughlan] 5 - 3

Irish Giant Who Hated Fuss, An [Cosgrove] 8 – 37/39

IWM Presented with Two VCs [Flowerdew, Hewitt W.] 5 - 4

John Hayward, The Pioneer of Medal Collecting 4 – 23/24

John Kenneally VC The Brummie Irishman 12 – 46/51

Joseph Farmer – The Majuba Hill VC 12 – 26/28

Kars VC, The [Teesdale] 8 – 2/5

Killed in the Big Push [Mariner] 3 – 31/32

Kinsmen in the Crimean War [CD Lucas] 11 – 12

Lancer VC of the Indian Mutiny [Goate] 4 – 12/14

Lassen Memorial at Comacchio, The 1 – 41/43

Last Commando VC, The [Knowland] 4 – 58/60

Lawbreaker, Now Mourned by Police [Mariner] 3 – 31/32

Lest We Forget – Hitchen’s Soldier Hero [Frank E. Young] 4 – 31/32

Letter from the Front, A [Parker C.] 6 – 23/25

Lichfield Cathedral VC Memorial Service 11 - 8

Life and Death of Bruce Kingsbury VC, The 3 – 53/54

Life and Hard Times of Richard Kelliher VC, The 2 – 43/46

Light Brigade VCs, The 5 – 10/15

Lone Pine VC [Shout] 9 – 31/34

Long and gallant Service of Eric Robinson VC, The 9 – 28/30

Lost Victoria Cross Gallery 4 – 8/11

Lucknow VC [D. MacKay] 10 - 18/19

Magnificent Day’s Work, A [Hollis] 5 – 42/46

Malakand Hero [Costello] 10 - 34/38, 11 – 40/45

Man who made the Victoria Cross, The 10 - 23/25

Mashonaland Rebellion VC [Nesbitt] 6 – 19/21

Memorial Arch for Lanarkshire’s VCs 3 – 11 [Nominal Roll]

Memorial Belatedly Placed on Crimean Hero’s Grave [J Sims] 3 - 6

Memorial for Paisley Victoria Cross Heroes 11 – 6

Memorial Statue for Forgotten Kiwi Hero [Nicholas] 10 - 60

Memorial to Courageous Hull Soldier and Sportsman [Harrison J.] 4 - 2

Memorial to William Forshaw 7 – 45

Michael Ashcroft and the Fascination of the VC 9 - 18

Michael Naxton and The Sotheby’s Auctions 3 – 51/52

Mr Hancock of Hendon Hall 10 - 23/25

Majuba Hill VC [Joseph Farmer] 12 – 26/28

Myth of the Greatest Number of Crosses for One Battle 7 – 9/12 [The Redan]

Nameless Hero Makes the Great Atonement [Mariner] 3 – 31/32

Netley Victoria Cross, The 2 – 3/4

Never Judge a Book by its Cover [Dancox] 11 – 55/57

New Memorial to Forest of Dean VC 5 – 3/4

Night Battle for Mount Longdon [McKay] 10 – 58/59

Night Fight VC [Robinson W. Leefe] 8 – 40/43

None Came Back [Malcolm] 4 – 43/50] Pt I], 5 – 38/41 [Pt II]

Northern Ireland’s Only VC [Magennis] 6 – 50/54

Now I Shall Have to go and Earn It [Nicolson] 2 – 31/34

Omdurman VC [Byrne T.] 8 – 18/22

Omdurman VC [Kenna PA] 2 – 8/13 [Pt I], 3 – 19/23 [Pt II], 4 – 26/30 [Pt III], 5 – 28/33 [Pt IV]

Only Medical Corps VC of WW2 [Harden] 8 – 56/57

Only WW2 Recipient to Die in a Post War Conflict [Nand Singh] 2 – 47/48

Outstanding VC to be Auctioned [N. Jackson] 4 – 53/54

Paradox of Alfred Oliver Pollard 10 - 39/46

Parallel Lives of Augustus Agar VC & Sir Paul Dukes 7 – 31/34 [Pt I]

Portrait of an Edwardian Officer [Jotham] 4 – 33/37

Prodigal Son, The [“Bosky” Borton] 6 – 28/31

Proud and Gratifying Day, A [1^st Investiture] 1 – 3/8 [Nominal Roll of Recipients]

Recommended by the Enemy [Durrant T.] 6 – 39/41

Redcoats and Zulus – The Anglo-Zulu Exhibition 2004 5 - 47

Replacement Headstone for Boer War VC Recipient [Coulson] 3 – 8/9

Righting a Wrong – Rifleman Bambrick Remembered 1 – 39/40

Royal Artillery VC Stock-Take 11 - 6

Sacrifice of the Li Wo, The [Wilkinson T] 1 – 29/33 [Pt I], 2 – 35/39 [Pt II]

Samuel Shaw VC – Postscript 9 - 17

Samuel Wassall & His Torturous Path to a VC 6 – 16/18

School VC League Table 5 - 4

Schoolboy with the Victoria Cross [Buller] 9 - 14

Scottish Memorials 4 - 5

Should Lt. Henry Curling have been recommended for the VC? 7 – 52

Show Me a Hero And I Will Show You A Tragedy 12 – 8/14 [VCs and their unfortunate deaths]

Silent VC, The [Finlay] 3 – 33/34

Singular Case of William Avery Bishop 11 – 50/52

Sink the Beast – The X-Craft Raid on the Tirpitz 9 – 49/53 [Place, Cameron D.]

Soldier Artist, The [Clifford] 5 – 16/18

Soldier, Pastoralist, Historian [Towner] 5 – 34/35

Son Campaigns for Memorial, A [Eardley] 4 – 55/57

South Devon pays Tribute to two VC Heroes [H. Jones, Veale] 2– 49/50

Speakman’s Bridge – A VC Comes Home 3 – 9/11

St. Nazaire Commando Leader to be Commemorated 5 – 4 [Newman AC]

Story of John Brunt 10 – 54/57

Strange Death of the Laird’s Son [WD Steuart] 11 – 17/21

Suicide of Boer War Hero [House W.] 8 – 29/31

Supreme Courage Weekend with the South Wales Borderers 7 – 52

T.E. Lawrence and the V.C. 5 – 48/49

Theft and Recovery of a VC in Sydney [Paton] 7 – 17/19

Three VC Cannon – And A Cover-UP 8 – 6/11

Through Mud and Blood to the Green Fields Beyond [Sewell] 8 – 48/50

Tommy Gould – Submariner VC 2 – 40/42

Tragic Final Act, A [Lumley] 7 – 13/14

Triple Cross – The Story of a Dishonoured Victoria Cross 7 – 22/24 [F. Corbett]

True Story of James Gorman VC. The 1 – 9/13

Two Schoolfriends Win the VC in the Same Battle 3 – 27/30 [Bell DS, White A]

Two Staffs. VCs at Arnhem [Baskeyfield, Cain] 6 – 45/49

Ulundi Beresford VC [WL de la P Beresford] 3 – 15/18

Unknown and Yet Well Known [American Unknown Warrior] 9 – 25/27

VC Cannon - Scientific Analysis is suspect 10 - 21

VC Records of the Staffords. 8 – 32/34

VC Who was Once a Convict [Mariner] 3 – 31/32

VC with three names, The [Whirlpool] 11 – 27/28

VCs Grave Rededicated [Adams J.] 11 – 8

Victoria Cross of Gunner William Connolly, The 7 – 15/16

Victoria Cross Paintings of Terence Cuneo, The 12 – 52/60

Victoria Cross Under the Hammer, The 3 – 51/52

Vietnam War Hero [Wheatley] 1 – 37/38

Walking Stick Willis [Willis RR] 2 – 21/22

We Can Turn ‘em Back! [Kingsbury] 3 – 53/54

White Nights and Red Terror [Agar] 7 – 31/34 [Pt I], 8 – 51/55 [Pt II], 9 – 35/40 [Pt III]

Wife Who Married Two VCs, The [McMaster, Douglas M.] 9 - 24

William Hall VC – A First Class Cannoneer 1 – 14/16

William Hewett VC, KCB The First Freemason VC 12 – 4/7

Winner of the First Medical VC [Mouat] 6 – 8/11

Worthy of the Highest Award [Theodore Cooke DSO] 2 – 27/30

Zulu War VCs, The – Gallantry, Patronage and Cover-ups 1 – 17/20

FAMILY AWARDS 10 - 61

GRAVES, MEMORIALS and MONUMENTS

Illustrations, New, Refurbishments to and Renovation of

Blue Plaque for Guy Gibson VC 9 - 8

British Unknown Warrior 12 – 44 Guard of Honour Roll p45]

Gloster Hill Memorial, Korea 7 – 46

Hobart, Tasmania – New memorial to 13 VCs 3 - 9

Lanarkshire VCs – Memorial Arch 3 – 11

Pubs Named After VCs 9 - 8

Scottish Memorials 4 - 5

Unveiling of VC/GC Memorial 14 May 2003 3 – 5 [Nominal Roll of attendees]

Victoria Cross Grove Memorial, Tunbridge Wells 9 - 8

Adams J 11 – 8

Agar, Augustus 9 – 40

Bambrick, Valentine 1 – 39/40

Brooks O. 6 – 35

Brunt, John [Window] 10 – 57

Buckley, CW 10 - 2/3

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