453 Pages
ISBN 978-1917120487
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Brian Drummond is an ex-Gunner with 23 years’ service who achieved the rank and appointment of WO1 (RSM) who has a passion for regimental history, especially to the brave men who were awarded the Victoria Cross for their acts of bravery. He has endeavoured to give the reader a detailed insight into the life of each recipient of the Victoria Cross. The author with Alfred Smith’s VC and a ‘Screw Gun’ held at the RA Museum in Larkhill.

Ubique, The 62 Victoria Crosses of the Royal Regiment of Artillery is a series of six books covering the lives and extraordinary exploits of all the Victoria Cross recipients of the regiment that fought in the wars from 1853 (Crimean War) up to when Patrick Porteous VC, the last VC Gunner to earned the Cross at Dieppe in August 1942.

Part Three, For Valour during Victoria’s Small Wars 1860-1889 brings together the life stories of a very varied group of six officers and men spanning the period of the 1863–1885. Each story will give the reader essential information on their birth, early life, enlistment in Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s armed forces, the individuals act of bravery, how being awarded the VC effects their lives up to their death and details of their burial location. And finally, the current location of their Victoria Cross and campaign medals.

A valuable source to reference for any British Gunner historian.