Tag: Heroism

Sqn Ldr Kenneth Drury, Lancaster navigator awarded the ...

He survived a raid on Berlin when Bomber Command lost nearly 12 per cent of the ...

Charles Richards, Chindit who left a vivid account of j...

The Japanese would try to infiltrate at night and cried: ‘Johnny, where are you?...

Jim Wren, last survivor of the sinking of the Repulse i...

‘The noise and the rattle of gunfire was terrific. All of a sudden she just roll...

Lalbahadur Pun, Gurkha awarded the MC for his courage d...

His MC citation stated: ‘This was an outstanding example of inspired leadership ...

Rear-Admiral John Roberts, naval aviator who served in ...

He helped to fight off an invasion of British Honduras in an operation he descri...

Flight Lieutenant Jack Dark, navigator and bomb aimer i...

The Pathfinder Force was brought in to improve accuracy and part of Dark’s job w...

Aberdeen commando Jimmy Johnson’s remarkable life shows...

The north-east commando won the Military Medal and was regarded as a hero by his...

Mike Pratt GC, off-duty policeman who took on three ban...

He drove up onto the kerb to block the bank’s door and armed himself with a carj...

Field Marshal Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, Chief of the...

‘Probably the last British officer to have had a spear thrown at him in anger’, ...

Tributes to Aberdeen war hero and last surviving Victor...

Flight Lieutenant John Cruickshank was recognised for his bravery during the Sec...

He worked with artificial limbs for decades. Then a lor...

An experienced clinician in prosthetics, Jim Ashworth-Beaumont found himself the...