Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1900 — Victoria Cross. [ARTICLE]

Victoria Cross.

Of the men who won the Victoria Cross in the far-away ’sos no fewer than sixty-four are living to-day, so that of all the living men who are entitled to wear the Cross more than two out of every five have lived” to wear It for more than forty years. Even of the band of sixty-two Crimean heroes who were decorated by the Queen in Hyde Park on the 26th of June, 1857, twenty-four are still living.