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Posted: Thu 24 Jul, 2008 4:34 pm
by degrees of passion
It can't be cos of that surely-I read that someone was posthumously awarded the VC for jumping on a live grenade in the trenches of WW1 and saved his pals by shielding the blast with his body."In the face of the enemy" is nonsense really as they're doesn't exist any front line anymore so to speak.
Posted: Thu 24 Jul, 2008 5:53 pm
by just_me
It was:
The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of some Commonwealth countries and previous British Empire territories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Cross
Ok I admit Wikipedia isn't the most accurate but I can't be bothered to search for something more reliable. He was not under fire at the time so cannot be awarded the VC, however the GC is also a very high award and he definetly deserves it.
The GC had not been created in WWI, maybe that is why that partciluar soldier recieved the VC then.