Brigadier-General Roland Boys Bradford VC
AT 3.15pm two battalions of the Durham Light Infantry rose up out of their trenches to attack...
Captain George McKean VC
GEORGE McKEAN was the dashing captain. With intense machine gunfire raining down on his men in...
Lieutenant Commander George Nicholson Bradford VC
Chris Lloyd tells of a George who was born on St George's Day and who fell on that day, giving...
Private Thomas Kenny VC
Welcome, welcome once again Hero brave and bold To the school where you were taught In the days...
Private William Short
Private William Short, of Eston, near Middlesbrough, was 31 when he died. The Green Howard was...
Second Lieutenant Donald Bell
"I must confess that it was the biggest fluke alive and I did nothing, " Second Lieutenant...
Second Lieutenant John Scott Youll
JOHN Scott Youll, known as Jack, was born in Thornley on June 6 1897 and from the age of 15...
Sergeant Edward Cooper
THE story of Stockton's only Victoria Cross winner who inadvertently sparked the protest...
Sergeant William McNally
A MILLION or more men were pitched into a battle which precipitated the end of the First World...