THE VICTORIA CROSS
TWO BRAVE MEN. LONDON. 24th December. Particulars of the action for which Lieutenant, James Leach and Sergeant John Hogan, of the 2nd Manchester Regiment, have been awarded the Victoria Cross, have been published. After the regiment's two unsuccessful attempts to capture some trenches on 29th October, Hogan, who is an ex-postman, and Leach, at the head of ten others, crawled a hundred yards to the trenches amid a storm of bullets, and then in a ha-nd fight killed eight Germans, wounded two, and made prisoners of sixteen.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 153, 26 December 1914, Page 7
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90THE VICTORIA CROSS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 153, 26 December 1914, Page 7
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