Mendip Victoria Crosses

Six men who were awarded the Victoria Cross were associated with the Mendip region of Somerset in England. Two were medical men, and five were gained for saving the lives of comrades in the face of great danger during the Great War, the Boer War, the North-West Frontier, and even against cannibalistic natives on a remote island. The sixth was gained in Tunisia in 1943, by the only man to be awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously and lived to wear it! The information is taken from the JWB Historical Library, compiled over four decades.