VICTORIA CROSS FIGURES.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 40, 17 December 1920, Page 6

VICTORIA CROSS FIGURES.

The thousandth V.C. was awarded to Private Henry Dalziel. Of this number, no« fewer than. 478 have been won in the preseut wai', and two soldiers, Lieut. -Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake and the late Captain iNoel Chavasse, qualified for the Cross twice over, and were awarded barg in eo'nsequence. Notwithstanding many statements to the eontrary, these two cases stand alone, no other award of a double V .0 having been gazetted during the last sixty odd years that have elapsed since tne decoration was instituted. Fiffy of the one thousand Grosses have been won by two regiments, the English Rifle Brigade and the Prinee Consort's Own, which tie for first place with 25 each. Next come the South Wales Boi'derers and the King's Royal Rifles, each with a score of C'rosses to their credit. The Lancashire F usiliers, which four years ago possessed not a single Cross, now has thirteen, all gained in the recent war, and there is not now a single regiment in the British Regular Army without- its Cross or' Cro-srs . provided fourteen names to the list, with. T'he Royal Army iVieunn C-n^s sixt-een Crosses, for the corps has aiso the only two bars conferred.