Sentence examples for won victoria from inspiring English sources
He said Sikh soldiers had won Victoria Crosses.
A day on which three of his Welsh comrades won Victoria Crosses.
Cecil Kinross, who won the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele – he was born there".
Colonel Merritt was one of two Canadians who won the Victoria Cross for their actions at Dieppe.
Tul Bahadur Pun, one of 13 Nepalese Gurkha soldiers who have won the Victoria Cross, has died aged about 88.
Last month Ms. Amighi, a New York resident, won the Victoria and Albert Museum's prestigious Jameel Prize for the best artistic work inspired by Islamic design.
He also features heroes like Lt. Albert Jacka of Australia, who had already won a Victoria Cross at Gallipoli and was wounded on the Somme.
Scotland Yard is believed to be investigating whether the telephone calls of Johnson Beharry, the soldier who won the Victoria Cross in Iraq for his bravery, were secretly hacked by the NOTW.
By Armistice Day, soldiers from the subcontinent had won 11 Victoria Crosses, including the very first awarded to a British Indian Army soldier – Khudadad Khan, a machine gunner with the 129th Baluchi regiment.
Cpl Davies won his Victoria Cross when his company was outflanked on both sides near Eppeville in France.
Laidlaw won the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military honour, for his bravery at the Battle of Loos on 25 September 1915.
