Post by roberthenry on Oct 5, 2006 10:04:42 GMT
Les, My first post and its going to be controversial.
On your VC facts page you have said that the twelve VCs awarded on 25th April 1915 at Gallipoli are known as ( The twelve before breakfast ) . There are in fact only six of them who are known as ( The six before breakfast ). The reason being that,
Cuthbert Bromley
John Grimshaw
William Kenally
Alfred Richards
Frank Stubbs
Richard Willis
All Lancashire Fusiliers and all elected by the Regiment
They were landed at W beach, with only two of the twenty four boats in the first wave reaching shore and despite losing eleven officers and three hundred and fifty men they had secured the beach before 0800. ( Before Breakfast )
Of the othersix VCs that day
George Drewry
Wilfred Malleson
George Samson
Arthur Tidsall
Edward Unwin
William Williames
All Royal Naval VCs
They were awarded at V beach where by 0900 only three hundred of the seven hundred Royal Dublin Fusiliers had landed and reached a bank ten yards inland. Five of these Vcs were for rescuing wounded men and bringing them back to the River Clyde troopship throughout the day and in the case of Arthur Tisdall "only darkness prevented him from continuing." ( A long time after breakfast ).
Regards
Robert Henry
On your VC facts page you have said that the twelve VCs awarded on 25th April 1915 at Gallipoli are known as ( The twelve before breakfast ) . There are in fact only six of them who are known as ( The six before breakfast ). The reason being that,
Cuthbert Bromley
John Grimshaw
William Kenally
Alfred Richards
Frank Stubbs
Richard Willis
All Lancashire Fusiliers and all elected by the Regiment
They were landed at W beach, with only two of the twenty four boats in the first wave reaching shore and despite losing eleven officers and three hundred and fifty men they had secured the beach before 0800. ( Before Breakfast )
Of the othersix VCs that day
George Drewry
Wilfred Malleson
George Samson
Arthur Tidsall
Edward Unwin
William Williames
All Royal Naval VCs
They were awarded at V beach where by 0900 only three hundred of the seven hundred Royal Dublin Fusiliers had landed and reached a bank ten yards inland. Five of these Vcs were for rescuing wounded men and bringing them back to the River Clyde troopship throughout the day and in the case of Arthur Tisdall "only darkness prevented him from continuing." ( A long time after breakfast ).
Regards
Robert Henry
