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Lieutenant Colonel The Reverend Bernard William Vann VC MC & Bar) (9 July 1887 – 3 October 1918) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the only ordained clergyman of the Church of England to win the VC in the Great War as a combatant. ==Early life== Vann was born in Rushden,〔(A Rushden Hero )〕 Northamptonshire where his parents, Alfred George Collins Vann and Hannah Elizabeth Vann were teachers. He graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge and was a 1910 Cambridge hockey blue.〔(CUHC Vann Club )〕 He was a footballer who as a centre-forward assisted Northampton Town and in 1906 played 12 games for Burton United F.C. (who were then a League club) before making his three League appearances for Derby County in 1906–07.〔(Vann, Bernard – Rams Centre-Forward was Victoria Cross Hero )〕 He was ordained as a priest in 1912 and became chaplain and assistant master at Wellingborough School (1913–15).
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