Thursday, December 19

Notification: Victoria Cross: On 19 December 1854, Private William Norm... @ Thu 19 Dec 2024 14:00 - 14:30 (EET) (On This Day)

Victoria Cross: On 19 December 1854, Private William Norman, 7th Regt, was placed on single sentry duty some distance in front of the advanced sentries of an outlying picquet in the White Horse Ravine, a post of much danger and requiring great vigilance. The Russian picquet was posted about 300 yards in front of him, and three Russians came reconnoitring under cover of the brushwood. Private Norman single-handed, took two of them prisoner without alarming the Russian picquet.
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