€200
Victoria Cross recipient, Lance-Corporal James Hewitson, a small archive of correspondence (1934-61) regarding his welfare and care. Lance-Corporal Hewitson was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 26 April 1918 at Givenchy, France, in a daylight attack on a series of crater posts, Lance-Corporal Hewitson led his party to their objective, clearing the enemy from both trench and dug-outs. He then attacked a hostile machine-gun team coming into action against his men and shortly afterwards he routed a bombing party which was attacking a Lewis gun, killing six of them.
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