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Lieutenant Colonel Bertram Best-Dunkley VC (3 August 1890 – 5 August 1917) 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. Best-Dunkley was 26 years old, and a temporary lieutenant-colonel in the 2/5th Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War on 31 July 1917 at Wieltje, Belgium, when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. Before enlisting in World War I, Best-Dunkley was a Master at Tienstin Grammar School. There is a Marble Memorial Plaque to him in the Entrance Hall of the School which was partially defaced by Japanese troops during their occupation of China but it is still in situ. ==References== *(Findagrave profile ) *(Details ) *Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999) *The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997) *VCs of the First World War - Passchendaele 1917 (Stephen Snelling, 1998) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bertram Best-Dunkley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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