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1/7 (Robin Hood) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters Captain Charles Geoffrey Vickers, Sherwood Foresters was awarded the Victoria Cross on 14 October 1915 in the Hohenzollern Redoubt for the following action: "When nearly all his men had been killed or wounded, and with only two men available to hand him bombs, Captain Vickers held a barrier for some hours against heavy German bomb attacks from front and flank. Regardless of the fact that his own retreat would be cut off, he had ordered a second barrier to be built behind him, in order to ensure the safety of the trench. Finally, he was severely wounded, but not before his magnificent courage and determination had enabled the second barrier to be completed." Captain Vickers survived the First World War and went on to serve as a lawyer, administrator, writer and pioneering systems scientist. During the Second World War, he served as Deputy Director General at the Ministry of Economic Warfare, in charge of economic intelligence and a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee. He received a knighthood for his services 1946. Sir Geoffrey Vickers died in 1982. The Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award has been presented by the International Society for the Systems Sciences every year since 1987 in his memory. Faces of the First World War The full story is not always known to us. If you know more, please tell us in the comments below. Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at <a href="http://www.1914.org/faces" rel="nofollow">www.1914.org/faces</a>. This image is from <a href="http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205016678" rel="nofollow">IWM Collections</a>. |
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