Saturday, December 8, 2012

Britain's Bravest Soldier?

Photo: Lieutenant Colonel Martin-Leake

Is This Our Bravest Soldier? Extraordinary Story Of Medic Who Won TWO Victoria Crosses In Boer War And World War One -- Daily Mail

* Lieutenant Colonel Martin-Leake one of just three soldiers to win two VCs
* Surgeon saved the lives of wounded comrades in Boer War with enemy riflemen just 100 yards away
* Aged 40, he feared he was too old to volunteer for the Western Front and travelled to Paris to enlist

He was a medical man who tended to the sick and injured at a local hospital in the shires.

But Arthur Martin-Leake became one of Britain's greatest war heroes — earning the Victoria Cross for extreme bravery not once, but twice.

On the battlefields of the Second Boer War in South Africa he ignored the risk of death from heavy rifle fire to save the lives of wounded comrades.

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My Comment: An extraordinary story of bravery.

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