#victoriacross

This final blog with Swansea connections to Victoria Cross winners, if that of Francis Octavious Grenfell. His connections with Swansea is a family connections. All will be explained! Grenfell born 1880,

The third man with a connection with Swansea to have been awarded a Victoria Cross, is Allan Leonard Lewis. His connection is that he enlisted at Swansea. Lewis was born February 1895, Whitney-on-Wye,

The second man with a Swansea Connection, is George Prowse. Prowse born 1886, Gilfach Goch, Llantrisant. Information in regards to his young life is uncertain. 1915, the year after after the First World

Last week I wrote an introduction the Victoria Cross, when it was established 1856 not as I wrote 1956, and how many people had been awarded it, Today I will look more closely at those people who have

The Victoria Cross Medal, the highest medal awarded. It is awarded for gallantry "in the face of the enemy", to date there have been 1,358 awarded. In the next series of blogs I would like to