This Victoria Cross is recorded simply as being awarded to the 'Unknown Soldier' and no further details are engraved on the medal. After the siege at Sevastapol, the fighting mainly ceased and on 30 March 1856, after two years of action, the Russians negotiated a Peace Treaty at the Congress of Paris. Five of these separate medals have been awarded, all for actions in the War in Afghanistan; Willie Apiata received the Victoria Cross for New Zealand on 26 July 2007; Mark Donaldson received the Victoria Cross for Australia on 16 January 2009; and Ben Roberts-Smith was awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia on 23 January 2011. He received the bar for his actions. [10] There have been several VCs awarded to close relatives. Under the terms of the original Royal Warrant, there was a clause that allowed for a recipient's name to be erased from the official list of holders in certain circumstances. The first 85 awards - announced in 'The London Gazette' of 24 February 1857 - were made retrospectively, dating back to the start of the Crimean campaign in the autumn of 1854. Recognising the bravery of civilian volunteers during the Indian Mutiny (1857-59), an 1858 warrant extended the eligibility of the VC to ‘non-military persons’ serving with the forces. The first citations of the VC, particularly those in the initial gazette of 24 February 1857, varied in the details of each action; some specify date ranges while some specify a single date. These double Victoria Cross holders are Surgeon Captain Arthur Martin-Leake, Captain Noel Chavasse and Captain Charles Upham. Within the British Armed Forces the Navy is the Senior Service, followed by the Army and then the Royal Air Force (RAF). Victoria Cross group awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert 'H' Jones, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, 1982. The bitter jealousies (and strange co-dependence) between the three ex-Bullingdon boys who ran Britain, 'Boris's life hung in the balance but a family row wasn't far away': When PM was hospitalised with Covid, his relationship with ex-wife Marina's children was strained... while his sister Rachel rowed with their father Stanley, writes TOM BOWER, The wife with 1,001 ways to kill her enemies: Barbara Amiel - wife of disgraced tycoon Conrad Black - says she wants her (many) foes guillotined or poisoned with ebola in her new memoir, writes one-time colleague SARAH SANDS, Communities secretary Robert Jenrick facing demand for a probe into £25m payment for town in his constituency from scheme designed to help more deprived areas, Housing secretary Robert Jenrick will be granted power to block removal of statues as government fights back against woke campaigners 'bullying' local officials into wiping out Britain's heritage, REVEALED: How Elizabeth Hurley healed her rift with her son Damian's father Steve Bing months before he died, Priti Patel accuses Facebook of 'tying its own blindfold' over child sexual abuse with plan to encrypt messages so law-enforcement cannot see them, warning it could see information on up to 12 MILLION cases being lost, Britain to deploy nets to 'disable' dinghies and send migrants back across the Channel, Naval gazing: Admiral Lord Nelson and the Royal Navy's links to slavery 'to be re-evaluated' by Greenwich Maritime Museum who plan to change their historical displays following the Black Lives Matter, Avocados linked to violence, rape and deadly beatings: British owners of vast Kenyan farm supplying UK supermarkets are sued for human rights abuses over brutal attacks on locals, Grazia magazine sacks its new 'diversity champion' for posting anti-Semitic Twitter rants - including one which read, 'Auschwitz gas chamber music LMAO'.
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