Awarded the VC for his heroism on 16 August 1917, age 21, while serving in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. "Enemy machine gun fire from a blockhouse was holding up the battalion’s advance. With four men he rushed forward firing into an opening in the blockhouse. Firing ceased. Seven machine guns and 45 prisoners were captured. (Ypres, Belgium)". Freemason at: â„–80, St John’s Lodge.
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Edward Cooper, VC
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Freemason VCs - N4 - Collings-Wells, Cooper, Cruickshank
John Stanhope Collings-Wells, 22-27 March 1918, Aged 37, The Bedfordshire Reg...
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Sergeant F. Gutsell
A member of Jas. Shoolbred & Co. Ltd. who served in WW1 and returned. Queen's Westminster Rifles
War served, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Heroes of Telemark
In 1943 Norwegian resistance commandos sponsored by the SOE raided the enemy-occupied Norsk hydro plant in the Telemark region of Norway. This successful raid sabotaged the machinery that was produ...
2 memorials
Gunner Cecil Edward John Reed
Cecil Edward John Reed was born on 21 September 1894, the youngest of the four children of John Valentine Reed (1859-1946) and Mary Ann Reed née Murphy (1858-1913). His birth was registered in the ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Wilfred Owen
Poet and soldier. Born Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, near Oswestry, Shropshire. In 1915 he enlisted in the Artists Rifles Officers' Training Corps, eventually being commissioned as a second lieutenan...
Person, Armed Forces, Poetry, Seriously Famous, France, Scotland
1 memorial
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