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I TWO V.C.'s IN ONE FAMILY.…

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I TWO V.C.'s IN ONE FAMILY. J A. highly interesting fact concerning the iist is that there are actually three cases of father and 60n.. both with the distinc- tion. Just as in the Boer War young Lieu- tenaut Roberts repeated his fan us parent's heroi.-fm' by gaining the V.C., .so in the pre- sent war the late Major W. La 'louche pon- greve won the V.C., alboutsixtecn yraafter his father, the well-known Army CYrps com- mander, Lieutenant-General Sir W. N. Coa- gv»\e, K.C.B. The third'case is that of the laic General Sir Charles Gough, who won the V.C. for. exploits in India in 1SJ7-"B, and Brigadier-General Sir John Edmond Gough, who received the decoration for conspicuous bravery in Somaliland in 1903, and lost life in the present war in February, "1915, It should be noted that an uncle of Brigadier-. General Gough also won the V.C. in India. three V.C 'a in one family constituting a record.

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