Three VCs of the 24th


A group photo taken c1900 shows Private William Jones, standing behind a seated Private Fred Hitch VC in cloth cap, and John Williams in the uniform of the South Wales Borderers. 'Jones is the only one not to wear his VC, because he had pawned it.


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