Noel Godfrey Chavasse - Other Holders of The VC and Bar

Other Holders of The VC and Bar

  • Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake received his first VC in 1902 during the Boer War while serving as a surgeon captain in the South African Constabulary attached to the 5th Field Ambulance, and the Bar whilst serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps near Zonnebeke, Belgium in 1914. Coincidentally, he was one of those who treated Chavasse at Potijze after his fatal wounding - only time the two men were at the same place and time.
  • Captain Charles Upham of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) Canterbury Battalion, to whom Chavasse was related by marriage, for actions during the Battle of Crete in May 1941; his Bar as a captain during First Battle of El Alamein in July 1942.

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