Friday, September 2

Notification: Victoria Cross: Private Alfred Ablett, 3rd Battalion, Gre... @ Fri 2 Sept 2022 14:00 - 15:00 (EEST) (On This Day)

Victoria Cross: Private Alfred Ablett, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, His citation reads: 1855 during the siege of Sebastopol, Crimea, a burning shell fell into a trench containing two cases of ammunition. Private Ablett at once realising the danger to which all were exposed, seized the shell in his hands and threw it over the parapet, where it immediately exploded as it touched the ground, but not a man was touched.
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