HOW HEROES FARE
Victoria Cross Winners
Once feteci as national heroes, Britain's bravest soldiers, the men who for their courage were awarded the Victoria Cross, are now living in Comparative obscurity. Some are facing poverty. Others have successfully adapted themselves to modern conditions and are prospering. Many have slipped out of sight completely. Inquiries by a “Sunday Chronicle” representative reveal that V-C.’s are working as commissionaires, warehousemen, lamplighters, milkmen, and barristers.
Among the successful V.C.’s is Brigadier-General IV. Wright, who has recently been appointed a member of the King’s Bodyguard of the Honouraide Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms. Captain E. G. Robinson. another V.C.. is naval aide-de-camp to the King. ExLieutenant Brett Mackay 'Cloutman, V.C.. is a barrister. Michael O’Leary, the gallant Irish V.C.. is working in a London warehouse. Captain Eric Robinson, who was awarded his V.C. for an act of bravery ashore in the Dardanelles in 1915, is to-day Captain of the dockyard at Devonport. Two V.C-’s are lamplighters iu Leeds. Mr. Gordon Kenny, the ex-Gordon Highlanders drummer, who won his V.C. near Ypres. is in London as a commissionaire. Another V.C. who is a commissionaire is ex-Corpo,ral James Smith,' of the “Buffs.” Ex-Sergeant Boulter, of Coultdon. runs a hosiery business of his own.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 102, 24 January 1933, Page 14
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204HOW HEROES FARE Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 102, 24 January 1933, Page 14
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