THE MASSiu i-wrr, pmiEPOirr. n. t, fbedat, decexbeb is, »i«
200 VICTORIA CROSSES WON PORING THE WAR
•reatesl Honor That Can Come
to Soldier Fighting for
Great Britain.
SOME HEROES LOSE UYES
Deeds of Valor in Battle for Which
Men Were Decorated Make Task
More Thrilling ThaTi Fiction—
Majority From Ranks of
Workers.
London.—In the coarse of the srreat war ixoHTly 200 Itritish and colonial Noldiers have won the Vlcteirla Creis.s. tbe greatest honor that ean come to a man whu flghlM for (4reat iirituln. - Most of the awards have gone to men «f bumble Htatlon. Two of them bej- ,((aii life so doubtfully tbat they "coin- iPlefed their education" under the en¬ forced discipline of reformatories and industrial schools. Others were quiet- Hying working-class folk beforo the. war. I
But It is curious to note that nearly | all of them seem to have had a spice i of the English love of games in their natures—tlie games In which they learned to be fearless of physionl dan¬ ger and careful only for tlie aclileve- i r^ent of what they had In view. Take , th« case of l'ri vate James Miller, V. ! O., of the Royal Lancashire regiment, ' of whom It Is said:
"He was a great believer lu keejilng cool. They called him a ploddi'r, and when he played football he sufferi'd from Muck of devil." Once he gave a ' gexMl hiding to a bigger fellow who had feiuled him four tlnies very badly. He was a silent mau and there' was nothing in his life to suggest tbnt hi' wns anything iiiiire thau a very re¬ spectable, hard-working paper-mill la¬ borer."
But this Is what he did:
"Ordered to tuke an IniiMirtant mes¬ sage under heavy shell and rille Hre and bring back a reply at all costs, he succe'celed In spite eif a gaping wonnd In lii,s ulidomen, which In- com¬ pressed with Ills hand, anei falling (h-ml at the feet of the olllcer lo wlioiii be dellve«red the message."
What Some of Them Did. i
One of the new V. C.".s, Private, ¦Veiile, of the' Devonshire regiment, coolly went out to a wounded ojllc.r. who vvas lying in growing com wllliiu 50 yard.s of Hie ene'iny, drugged him to a she'll liole, wi'nt back for water, returned, went back again and brought assistance, and nfter several alleuipls coveri'd an approaching enemy patrol with « Lewis gun aud saved the of¬ flcer.
When King (Jeorge was at the front recently, Prlvute,' Tliomas 1'unibiill of the Wore'ester re'giiiii'iit wns called out of the trenches to be spoke-u to by the> king. Writing home to his mother he said, subse-que'iitly: "I cannot leil what pas.sed. 1 trembled till over." A few days late'r In the' midille' eif tierce lighting he- re-miiliie-ei with his wouiid- eti olllcer for three houi-s under con¬ tinuous flre from muchine guns uud bombs, and, alllidUgh at one time com¬ pletely cut off, he held his grounil and linally I'lirrie-.l the ollii'e:r into the Hril- l.sh line's. He was a prtiiitcr anil piiper- hange'r liy trade, and un e-nlbiisiastic cyclist.
A young Vorkshlre mun iiiimeii Don¬ ald Simpson P.ell Wits a si-liooiteiu-li- or at Hiirrogiite. uud a footbiiller. During un attack. In a lu'uvy e'litilade Are, he cre'pt u|i a communication rrench, f.illoweil by Iwn men, riishe"! across the- open under heavy tire, sbol the mai-liinc gunner, destreiye'd tin' gun and pi-rsuiinel with bombs, saving many lives iiud Insuring Hie^ sue-cess of the attai-U. l''or this he got the V. O. He lost ills life tlve days later in a slnrtbir act of brave^ry,
A Lancashire boy miiiie'd Jiimes Hutchinson was only a wi.rUer lu a spinning mill when the war brnUi' out. This is his story of un ultiick on the Oerinun trenches In the Somme front. After describing the terrible! rush over tho bullet-strewn No Man's Land, he says:
Get* Seven in a Trench.
"Sexin afterward I reachiHl the Ger¬ man trendies, quite hreMthle's.s, but was soon threiugh a gap In tl»e wire, which our artillery had cut for us. The tirst thing 1 saw wus a big (Jernian firing dowu the trench aud knocking chnlk off the side. When he had fin¬ ished his liltle game I ru.sluHi around the traverse and put my bayonet through hlni.
'Thi're was another Boclie thiTe, and when be saw me he cuminenced to run toward a dugout, but see'iiie'd to slip back u step, sei I preimptly gnl him through the> henel. Anoibe'r was resting on ono knee, and sHirte'd slKiut- lllg for nmrcy, but he paid Hie siuiie penalty. I nest went rouii.l iiuoiher tiuverse, and founel tlire'e* more Oer- tnun.s, und the-y ull me-t with tbe> suinc fate, eilher with Ihe biiyonet or ritle bullet. Hurrying round tlii' lu-xt tra¬ verse I saw about seven Huns throw¬ ing hand grenade's at Ihe lads who iiiiit not got in the tre'iiches, but we-re lighl¬ ing along the top,
"l''here wus one Ocrinan left to guard the trtive-rse', and he trie-d to threiw a hiiiiil grenuele at nie'. nut could not get It rciidy iii Hine, so 1 llii'd «
I round at hlni and hit him. I was dazed for a second, and did not know
' whethe'r tei rush hlin or not. so I shouted to my party to g.'t round the truvers.\ I then r.'loiidcd an.l kept guard A-hlle; the otlie-er and men be- htntl thrt-A- bombs nt the enemy. A Utile later we got woril to retire, so 1 kept guard while? my party got clear of the- trenches, und thi-n mount- eel the I.lll.Icr and mude my way biick,
: covering the enemy while the lads got the weiuiided In. Of the fill men In the
j whole ralel 21 We-re repnrHeil missing, 21 got back wounded and 21 unswere'd the roll «-all. After the shilling hnd stibsiili'd I was able to get bink to tbe villiige, und the next day bud an inter¬ view with the.' niiijor geiK-ral lu e-hiirg.' of the division. An ofhcer took my inline and number and said thut I would Soon have something to wear on my bre-ast."
Thiit "sometlilng" Is the Victoria Creis.s—with Its inscription—"For Valor,"
Lieutenant Baxter's Exploits Lieutenant Baxti'r, a Llveriiool man who has bei'n awarded the VIcteirlu Cro.ss iKislhuinoasly, closed his care-er with un exploit which stands out promlne-ntly. H«re is the ofHeiul story:
"Baxte-r was the captain of a dare¬ devil trench-ruldliig party known to their comrades as 'the Forty Thieves' be-e-uuse of the fact that they wen- iiever known to come back freun a raid wilhout a jille of swag In the sbiiiie <if e-uptured (Je-riuans. One- llight Buxte-r toeik his men <>ut under cover <jf iiiachliie gun flre. At a criti¬ cal moment BaxleT tripped and elrop- ped a bomb he was carrying. It was wlien tliey were nearly throngh und e-ould he-ar the movements of a C;er- iiiiin sentry a few feet uwuy. Baxter had previously removed the spllt-plii, and obviously the b-ve-r flew out and the fuse" ciii'-imene'e-il to llzz. Within live sei-oiids It Wdiild huve' exploded, s(-uttered the wire purty und given the- whole show away. Scarcely hesitiit- ing to think of the risk, he plcke-d ii u[i, whl)ipe-il the e-nse plug out of the .si-ri:w lind threw away the de-toiialor, which we'ut off niiiiiiHe-ed. It was a line example of merit, sklllfulness and resource. But more was to follow,
"The party cut all the w-ire timt dn- fe-nded the German trench and leape-d liilo the' Ireiii-h and turned in single lib' iilteriiiitely right nnd left, one sei.-- Hon led by Sergeant HcClelbuid und the other by Baxti'r. Tliis trench was very dee-p, about twelve to fifteen feet, and It was obvious that there would be trouble In hauling out any fat and unwilling souvenir of the o<-(-asiou in the shape of a prisoner.
Tribute in Orders.
"The se-ntry they bud heard was prom]illy shot. Another was buyone't- ed aud as hi' fell back a beimb was thrown out ol a dugout and exiilodcd at the e'litraiu'e. feirtuinitidy doing the riilelers no damage. Six bombs were sent in by way of un exchange of coin- Iillments and more se-nlries were met and given the unhappy dispatch. 'They screamed like a lot of old wom¬ en,' said one mun who wus on the spot. Tbe bombers attended to three more dugouts, nnd afte-rwards Hie whole liiirty witiidrew, without noise nnd confusion, on a prearranged signal lie¬ ing gl'.eii. They returned to their eiwn trenches to the tune of rapid lire, all nlijug the whole front from the Hrilish lield guns nnd 'heavies.'
"It wns u glorious Utile exjiloit, but suil tidings awaited the iiarly on re-- ussembling In their own line, for no¬ where was the gullaiit Baxter. Seiirch purties we*iit emt for him, but wilhout sue-cess. It was ci-rtuin lliat be liiid climbed out of the eiii'iiiy's Ui'm-li, for he helped toTn^l ii)i Hie lust nmu of his party, and the' oulv assuiiiptinii was that he had be'e-n either killeel or i-iipttired on re'turiiiug then-.
"Next day's batliilion nrdi-rs cmi- liilued this ruling tribute to Hiixti-r: 'It was lurge'ly owing t.; this ol'ici'r's pliii-k, di'lermlautioti, e.inluess and re-seiure'«' that the ruid -.vns siji-i-essiiil Ueud or missing. In- is >i ureal l.iss l. lb.' biitlalinli,' "
Tbnt is Hie sinry of Hi.- "i-'.irt.\ Tliievi-s,"
Kid Kills Qiants.
Pi-ivni" .Mbert Hill wns a Lan- cashire iml eiignge'd i;i ii l-ut work> w lu-n lln- Wiir br.ike out—of small staliire-, still in Ins teens, ile weiii tile Y. C, at the Somme! and bis plutoon Nerg.-nnt, just luviiiiib-ii li. tue, t-'U.-- fnr Hie lirsl lime the full slnry of how hu did It:
"On thc nighc of Juiy lit we- iiicved nil to Hie iiilvi-ne'e'ei line of nttiicU. il wus Hiie'c o'clock in the! moriiing when We- got tei 111 ¦ lidltiiiu, 1.5 yai-ils away from the Gernian trenches. Hill and myself were alone'. Sudde-uly two (ier¬ mans, both about six feet tall, sur¬ prised us. They were making for us when Hill, as coolly as If he hud been going t'l luee't a boxing oppni.ent, sprung ul tbem ;"il as quick us lighi- ning bayone'te'el :ir ni both. It wus one of the finest i iev.es of pluck i huve e-ve'r see-a or ; ,.d about, this Utile fel- ieiw, only ti\e'feet thre-e, iic'ceiunilng for two big, burly lluns. He- reiurneel tei mee as if nothing hiiel hupiieni-d ; an'I the ne-xt thing we found rbat we were surruuneleil by some' twenty to tw-enty- llve Germans, llill re-niarked: 'Ser¬ geant, we look like being taken prls- iii'.-rs. 1 rijilie'd: 'Tln-y will nol lake us alive. We will light for It. Xo sooner said thun done. We both got our beinibs and Hitl tlung two bombs ivlth surprising ai'curacy st might in the midst of them. He killed ubout eighteen and weitinded aud scattered Hie' rest.
Proud of His "Bap."
"SHll he did not tliink he had done Hnything big, and when 1 suggested he rli.iiilil go to lhe' rijlit and try to tliul (ioiiie of our eeimpiiiiy he wus ready ia-
Btnrtly. He went and rei>orted to the serg»>ant. and beard while there tlmt Cnptnin .Sculi's nnd a scout were lying out ebingeroiisly wounde-d. Hill at ouc« veilunfeM-ri-d fei fi'tch them In. He sue- ceeeb-d In bringing the captain to safe¬ ty, but rhe- ollicer died .soon after.
"Hill then started to return to me. but on the way he found two (Jeruinua in II shell hole. How he found thetn ts a puzzle, for it wus dark. He li-veled Ills rille at the-m und the Huns put np both hands before this little mun and. as they always do, pleaded '.Mercy, kanierad.' Hill then took his pris.incrs down the line aud that -was the only tinio he thought he bad el.me nny- tliiiig big. He was proud of hi-^ bag.' He perf.irme'el all the.se feats in less than half uu hour."
One purtle-ulur iucldent stirred Eng¬ land deeply. It was the death of Jnlin Travers Cornwell in the battle of Jut¬ land. A boy of sixteen em II. .M. S. Chester, he was mortiilly wnuinle-d early In the flght. Ne'vertheless he re- inuined standing alone at a most e-x- posed post to the end of the action, with the gun's crew dead and wound¬ ed all around hlin. Ue said slinply, when aske-d why he hud remiiiued there, he thought that he might be wanted. The lioy's body wus brougbi bae-k to Englaml and burleel by lii> parents In a London cemetery. The British pe-ople had not then heard the, i-Uiry of his dwith, but when Sir John' Jelllcoe'8 dispatch was published tell¬ ing alKiut young Comwell's heroism a wave of emotion swept over the coun¬ try.
Tw-o months afterward the coffin, was disinterred and buried with bon ors in a new grave.
Win« V. C. Twice.
One mun has won the V. C. twice in the present war. Ue was still alive. when last heard from and may y^-t w-loi the medal again. Lieut. John Jacku of tbe Fourteenth battalion of Aus-; tralian infantry is the mun. Ue wonj the V. C. lirst in the fighting at Gal- i Upoll. He was then a corporal. Oii| May 18, 1915, the Turks made a fierce attack on the position held by the Aus-, tralian.s. The onslaught was one ol the most furious of the disusirou- series of buttles that inarkeii the Giil- ilpoli campaign. It was necessary to capture a certain part of a Turkish treni-b and Jacka undertook to accom- pll.sh that Job alone. He got lu be¬ hind the trench. With his rifle Juckii .shot down five Turks, with his bayo¬ net he killed two more, and the threel who remained to oppose him he cap tured. His achievement saved a part of the allied Une.
On August 5 last Jnckn won bis v, C. the second time at the battle of the Seimme-. He had been promoted to o lieutenancy nnd was in command of u platoon sent to relieve a force of An- /.acs in an advanced trench nent Pozierea In the tnornlng Jiicka's lit¬ tle command was attacked by a feirec of aoo (iermans. Only seven of Jacku's men. Including himself, remained alive? afte-r that charge. These seven deeid- e-d to die fighting, even against ove'r- w-h.-'lming odds. With bayonets the'v charge>d at the Gerniiins. They fougM ^ like tigers nnd were able to keep the Ge-rmans busy until the reserves e-aine up and the tide turned. It Is said tha^ not a single German of that (XK) got away. Many were killed und some; were ciipture?d.
In any record of the Victoria Cross line cnnnot omit the name of Lleuten- nnt Warnefeirel. the' flrst niun to de¬ stroy a Zeppelin slngle-hanelcd. A few \ da.vs afte-r his exploit Wtiriieford was killed while flying with an .-\mer!cnn newspaper man.
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