The Victoria Cross carries an annuity of £lO a year, with an additional £5 a year for each bar, if the recipient is not of commissioned rank. If a man lives to be 73 years old he will probably have spent the equivalent of 23 years in bed. He will have spent two years shaving.
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Southland Times, Issue 22999, 19 September 1936, Page 12
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