Kitchener's Bugle Posted 26 March , 2015 Author Share Posted 26 March , 2015 24). Royal Welsh Fusiliers............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kitchener's Bugle Posted 26 March , 2015 Author Share Posted 26 March , 2015 29). Cheshire Regiment, Chester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mark Hone Posted 26 March , 2015 Share Posted 26 March , 2015 Needless to say don't forget the 'Six Before Breakfast', which will be all together in Bury at the end of April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auchonvillerssomme Posted 26 March , 2015 Share Posted 26 March , 2015 I wonder how many of them are copy VC's with the originals securely locked up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hone Posted 26 March , 2015 Share Posted 26 March , 2015 The Six will be the originals. There are at least a couple of replicas in the pictures above. One in particular is not quite full size when you see it close up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchener's Bugle Posted 27 March , 2015 Author Share Posted 27 March , 2015 1-6 Are the real thing, 14/15/16/17 are real according to the staff, 18/19/20 are real, 21-24 are replicas and 29/30 are real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchener's Bugle Posted 27 March , 2015 Author Share Posted 27 March , 2015 31). These are from the Manchester Regiment in Ashton Under-Lyne. The staff stated that they are real. They are secured within special cabinet. If they are then they have all clearly been given new ribbons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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purley Posted 29 March , 2015 Share Posted 29 March , 2015 All the VCs at The Wardrobe are replicas and I suspect most of these are too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phsvm Posted 31 March , 2015 Share Posted 31 March , 2015 I haven't looked through each photo, Kitchener's Bugle so you may have resolved this mystery already and if so my apologies but if not maybe you can answer this conundrum. My local Dorset Life magazine ran an article recently about Jak Counter and his VC. The Blandford Museum have a photo of Jack taken as his 'official' photo. It was given to the museum by his brother who wrote on the back that it was taken by him in Liverpool where Jack meet and married his wife. Now, here in lies the mystery. The photo quite clearly shows Jack in uniform but his cap badge is not that of the Kings Liverpool Regiment of which he was a member but a badge of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. No one seems to be able to com.e up with why there is this anomoly or any suggestions about it. If anyone on the forum has any ideas of suggestions I'm sure the museum would be delighted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phsvm Posted 31 March , 2015 Share Posted 31 March , 2015 The photo held by Blandford Museum taken by his brother is this one:- http://dorset-ancestors.com/?p=2166 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchener's Bugle Posted 1 April , 2015 Author Share Posted 1 April , 2015 Hello phsvm, Jack's Victoria Cross is fortunately within the public domain, being located in the Jersey Museum. His full entitlrment is:- Victoria Cross British War Medal ( 1914-20 ) Victory Medal ( 1914-19 ) King George VI Coronation Medal ( 1937 ) Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal ( 1953 ) Imperial Service Medal ( 1902 ) Jack served in the 1st Bn, King's ( Liverpool ) Regiment and was born in Dorset but why are his medals in Jersey?...... well....After the war, Jack Counter moved to Jersey, where he married and worked as a postman. He became known as 'Jersey's VC', and was a stalwart of the Royal British Legion. He became so well-known and popular that when he died in 1970, the island authorities wanted to have a permanent way to remember him. When a new set of states homes were planned just down the road from where he lived, they decided to name them after him. Thanks for the image link..... the cap badge does look as though it could be the Royal Warwickshire Regiment but take a look at this image which is sharper. I believe that it is definately the Kings Liverpool Regiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auchonvillerssomme Posted 1 April , 2015 Share Posted 1 April , 2015 As we are aware Jack Counter had 2 London Gazette entries, most of us would have been satisfied with just this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Hone Posted 1 April , 2015 Share Posted 1 April , 2015 That's definitely a horse not an antelope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 1 April , 2015 Share Posted 1 April , 2015 Definitely King's Liverpool Regiment. From a four-page biography of Jack Counter, VC, in Book 3 of 'Liverpool Heroes', one of four volumes on Liverpool's VCs. ; 'His regiment went to Jersey in 1919 and when he was demobilised in 1922 he joined the Post Office as an auxiliary postman at St Ouen.' There is plenty more about him in the book, published by the Noel Chavasse VC Memorial Association, edited by Ann Clayton. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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