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John Norwood

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speed. One man dropped, and Second Lieutenant Norwood galloped back about 300 yards through heavy fire, dismounted, and picking up the fallen trooper, carried him out of fire on his back, at the same time leading his horse with one hand. The enemy kept up an incessant fire during the whole time that Second Lieutenant Norwood was carrying the man until he was quite out of range.
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On the 30th October, 1899, this Officer went out from Ladysmith in charge of a small patrol of the 5th Dragoon Guards. They came under a heavy fire from the enemy, who were posted on a ridge in great force. The patrol, which had arrived within about 600 yards of the ridge, then retired at full
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His name is inscribed on a large plaque in Exeter College chapel, which is in remembrance of all those former members of the college who fell in the Great War.
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on 27 June 1900. He stayed with the 5th Dragoon Guards in South Africa until the war ended in May 1902, and left for
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before resigning his commission in June 1909, joining the
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His VC is on display at the Lord Ashcroft Gallery in the
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Beckenham
Kent
Sablonnieres
France
United Kingdom

British Army

Captain
5th Dragoon Guards
Second Boer War
World War I
Victoria Cross
VC
English
Victoria Cross
British
Commonwealth
Exeter College, Oxford

second lieutenant
5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
second lieutenant
5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
British Army
Second Boer War
Ladysmith
Transvaal
Orange River Colony

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