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Joseph Harcourt Tombs
Joseph Harcourt Tombs VC (23 Mar 1887 – 28 June 1966) born Frederick Griffith Tombs 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.
〔Baptised Frederick Griffith on 8 April 1877. The son of Frederick and Mary Tombs of Chester Road, Erdington, Warwick. The profession of his father was Secretary of the South Birmingham Conservative Association〕
==VC action==
Tombs was born in Birmingham and was a 28-year-old Lance-Corporal in the 1st Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.〔''Valiant Men: Canada's Victoria Cross and George Cross winners'' edited by John Swettenham, 1973, Hakkert. Many British references incorrectly state he was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1884 or 23 March 1888. The UK Government Victoria Cross commemorative paving stones program lists Birmingham as his place of birth, see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/first-world-war-victoria-cross-recipients 〕
On 16 May 1915 near Rue du Bois, France, Lance-Corporal Tombs, on his own initiative, crawled out repeatedly under very heavy shell and machine-gun fire to bring in wounded men who were lying about 100 yards in front of our trenches. He rescued four men, one of whom he dragged back by means of a rifle sling placed round his own neck and the man's body.〔The action was on 16 May 1915 not 16 June 1915 as stated in the citation published in the London Gazette.〕
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