Private Robert Morrow VC

Private Robert Morrow's Victoria Cross.

During early April 1915, the 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Fusiliers was in the Ypres Salient. At 1700 hours on 12 April, shortly before the Faughs were due to be relieved, a particularly heavy enemy artillery barrage pounded the trench line into a churning mass of earth with dead and dying men; many were blown to pieces, many were buried alive.

While the shells were still falling, Private Robert Morrow from D Company left the shelter of the support trench and went to the front trench. He returned dragging one of his comrades who had been buried in the debris and then returned again and again each time rescuing a comrade. Miraculously, Private Morrow was not injured on this occasion, although he was killed two weeks later. For his bravery under fire, he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

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