Lieutenant Forshaw of the 9th Battalion Manchester Regiment winning his Victoria Cross
Territorial Heroism on the Krithia Lines, August 8/9, 1915. How Lieutenant Forshaw of the 9th Battalion Manchester Regiment won the Victoria Cross and saved his corner of the Vineyard. Lieutenant Forshaw smoked incessantly during this ordeal in order to ignite the fuses of his bombs which he threw continuously says the Gazette for forty one hours
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