Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse - Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
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Blue plaque for Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse who was award two Victoria Cross medals during World War I for his bravery, the second posthumously.
Waymark Code: WM9ZDD
Location: Southern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/21/2010
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Text of plaque:
Captain
Noel Chavasse
Royal Army Medical Corps
V.C. and Bar
1884 - 1917
was born in Oxford and
attended this school
Magdalen College School
"Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC & Bar, MC (9 November 1884 – 4 August 1917) was a British medical doctor and British Army officer who is one of only three people to be awarded a Victoria Cross twice.
The battlefield of Mametz was to see acts of heroism by Captain Chavasse, the only man to be awarded the Victoria Cross twice during the First World War. In 1916, Chavasse was hit by shell splinters while rescuing men in no-man's land. It is said he got as close as 25 yards from the German line, where he found three men and continued throughout the night under a constant rain of sniper bullets and bombing. He performed similar heroics in the offensive at Passchendaele to gain a second VC and become the most highly decorated British serviceman in the war. Although operated upon, he was to die of his wounds two days later in 1917" - Wikipedia