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Winston Churchill sees Irish VC winner in action at Battle of Omdurman 1898, and becomes skin graft donor
In 1898 the 23 year-old Winston Churchill participated in the last British cavalry charge in history at the Battle of Omdurman, witnessing the bravery of a Dublin-born Victoria Cross winner, and becoming a skin graft donor to the officer he saved.
The home that was in the in the same family for 500 generations
The discovery of stone blades in a cave at Pinnacle Point in South Africa showed it had been occupied by human beings for 11,000 years.
Blackburn’s Victoria Cross hero is a victim of local government cutbacks
The neglected state of a Victoria Cross winner’s grave in my hometown of Blackburn, Lancashire, has caused local outrage this week.
Six brothers enlist together as soldiers in the Boer War – 1900
“The remarkable enlistment together of six brothers is proof of the strong patriotic feeling about the present war in South Africa…”
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