PARRY, D. H.

£120 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The V. C. its Heroes and their Valour, Fourth edition, enlarged from the first edition published in 1895. This edition notes 522 Victoria Crosses awarded, compared to 412 in the first. This work contains a list of Victoria Cross campaigns and actions, along with the number of crosses awarded in each campaign. The illustrations for this work were done by Stanley Llewellyn Wood (1866-1928), who also illustrated the Captain Kettle series.

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