From:	Paul Collins paulcollins@*******.com
Subject:	Victoria Cross (re: That post about the 2 CMoH's)
Date:	Sun, 8 Oct 2000 15:51:10 +1000

'Ello all. This is more an info type of post than anything else.
A while ago someone was talking about a joker who said his char had won 2
CMoH's, well, we don't have those down here, but we do have the Victoria
Crosses, and I thought it might be interesting to know how many people have
won it twice.

In it's 144 yr history, having been awarded 1354 times, only 3 people have
won it twice.

Arthur Martin-Leake (Royal Army Medical Corp, British) won one in the Boer
war, and one in WW1

Noel Chavasse (Royal Army Medical Corp) won both of his in WW1, the second
posthumously

Charles Upham (New Zealand Expeditionary Force) Who won both in WW2


There are 3 cases of father and son each winning one, 4 cases of brothers
each winning one, and the weird case of Pine st, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada,
where 3 people living in the same st won one. (The street was later renamed
Valour Road.

Also, only 11 have been awarded since 1946

Now, since I'm bored :o) the Medal of Honor is a little easier to get it
seems, especially doubles. (Easier, is obviously, a relative term)

between 1861 and 1997, there have been 3427 awards given out, with 19 people
getting second medals. (14 for seperate actions, and 5 getting both Army
and Navy medals for the same action.) and 372 since the end of WW2 (245
posthumous)

There is only one father son combibnation, General Douglas MacArthur and his
father.
There have been 5 sets of brothers.

Hope it helps someone. :o)


Annachie


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-----Out you popped, out of your mummy's pumpkin and everybody shouting,
"It's a boy, it's a boy!" And somebody said, "But it hasn't got a
winkle!"
And then I said, "A boy without a winkle? God be praised, it is a miracle. A
boy without a winkle!" And then Sir Thomas More pointed out that a boy
without a winkle is a girl. Anyway, I was really disappointed.
-----Nursie