Ebook: Martin-Leake: Double VC

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations used in the text; Foreword; 1. An Illustrious Inheritance; 2. 'Mammy Makes a Lovely Widow'; 3. 'Ride Straight, Shoot Straight, and Keep Straight!'; 4. 'Where Do All the Boers Come From?'; 5. 'The Hat and Legging Brigade'; 6. 'And Then He Refused Water'; 7. 'The City of Dreadful Night'; 8. 'Quite the Worst Country that I Have Ever Seen'; 9. 'A Uniform Does Everything Now'; 10. 'A Very Gallant Fellow'; 11. 'The Germans Must Be Squashed'; 12. 'A Bally Awful Muddle'; 13. 'I Am No Soldier';Only three men have ever won a bar to the Victoria Cross; but only two lived to wear the medal and bar, the other, Noel Chavasse, being awarded his bar posthumously. Of the three, the third being Charles Upham of the New Zealand Military Forces, Arthur Martin - Leake and Chavasse were non-combatants, being members of the RAMC. Born in 1874, and brought up in comfortable circumstances in rural Hertfordshire, Martin -Leake trained as a doctor and spent much of his life working for an Indian railway company; but the urge to be where he felt he was most needed, coupled presumably with a thirst for.