Friday, 5 August 2011

Liverpool Scottish double V.C. gets a new memorial

Captain Noel Chavasse V.C. and bar, a doctor who served in the Liverpool Scottish during the First World War has had a new memorial unveiled in his memory in Liverpool.
The BBC and Liverpool Echo have both reported on the unveiling.

Chavasse was one of only three men to have been awarded a bar to the Victoria Cross. His second award was posthumous.

Captain Chavasse died on 4 August 1917 and is buried at Brandhoek New Military Cemetery in Belgium.

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