Talk: Victoria Cross
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Removed:
- The medal is made from gunmetal, the metal being taken from Russian guns captured during the Crimean War.
because it contradicts the 1st para about chinese cannons. Could someone confirm which it is? -- Tarquin
- The first para reads to me like the guns in question were made in China, but were being used by the Russians at the time they were captured. The Chinese bit is a new one on me (though it may be correct), but it's certainly true the guns were Russian and captured at Sebastopol during the Crimean war. --Camembert
Arg. it's late at night here, I need to read more carefully. The bit I removed doesn't contradict, but the bit in the first paragraph has more information. Still, it was a Good Thing to remove duplication *yawn* -- Tarquin
Uh... Someone may want to actually look at the sites referenced at the bottom of this article, specifically the first paragraph of [1] :). -- nknight 16:42 7 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- (Not that it matters much, but those links weren't there when this discussion happened some months ago. --Camembert)
Just out of curiousity, how big were the cannons? I mean, they've gotten more than a thousand crosses out of them. What's going to happen when they run out of the bronze?
Is it correct to say that the crosses are in the shape of a "Maltese Cross" doesn't that have to have 8 points?
Why statement was removed
I removed "the Victoria Cross is one of the only awards that can never be revoked" because it is erroneous (and was ungrammatical as well). See here and here for starters. Corbett's VC was revoked and his name was erased from the Victoria Cross Register by Royal Warrant and his VC pension was terminated.Moriori 00:07, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC).
Valour in face of the enemy?
- Since the VC is awarded for acts of valour "in the face of the enemy", it is thought by some that the changing nature of warfare will result in few VCs being awarded.
Hmm. I'd always thought this, too - but there's a note on the entry for Campbell Mellis Douglas (a Canadian surgeon, award made way back in 1867), that:
- VC not awarded for bravery in action against the enemy, but for bravery at sea in saving life in storm off Andaman Islands.
I'm curious if anyone has information to reconcile these; it looks like the situation can be interpreted as "in the face of the enemy" if you squint a bit, but I was wondering if there was a more sensible explanation.
