World War I
He is unusual in having gained both the DCM and VC, and in quick succession, during the Hundred Days Offensive.
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Famous quotes containing the words world and/or war:
“In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“In war personal revenge maintains its silence.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)