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Irish VC awards in WW1

Jawgap · 2014-08-23 10:50:29

100 years ago today: the Irish soldier who won the Great War’s first Victoria Cross

23-08-2014 10:50AM

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100 years ago today: the Irish soldier who won the Great War’s first Victoria Cross

One hundred years ago today Lieut Maurice Dease, an Irish soldier serving with the British Expeditionary Force in Belgium, was in charge of a machine-gun section of the 4th battalion of the Royal Fusiliers.

On the force’s first day of combat, on August 23rd, 1914, this infantry outfit was told to hold a railway bridge over the Mons-Condé Canal at Nimy, outside the town of Mons. Lieut Dease manned a machine gun with a clear line of fire across the canal. Another gun covered the entrance to the bridge.

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