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NORMAN WATSON: Rare Scottish VC goes to auction
Cameronians VC, (Dix Noonan Web).
The Victoria Crosses awarded to Scottish regiments are, by and large, in national institutions, military museums or in the astonishing collection assembled by Lord Ashcroft at the Imperial War Museum. Few remain in private hands.
There should be considerable interest, therefore, in the VC awarded to 21-year-old Private James Towers, 2nd Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), which comes up for sale this week at coin and medal specialists Dix Noonan Web in London.
Pte Towers, with utter disregard for his own safety, volunteered to carry a vital message to a stranded platoon at Mericourt in October 1918, whilst in the knowledge that five of his comrades had already been in killed in turn making attempts to carry out the same task.
PRINCE Philip trained at the Royal Navy College in Dartmouth and then later was posted to the former HMS Royal Arthur leadership training centre in Corsham. He was still living in Corsham when he proposed to the then Princess Elizabeth, later to become HRH The Queen. Commander Patrick Hoare was captain of the former HMS Royal Arthur in Corsham from 1956 to 1958. He was at the Royal Navy shore training establishment at a time when one of its most famous conscripts was Philip Mountbatten, later to become Prince Philp, Duke of Edinburgh. In 2008, the then 90-year-old who lived in Corsham town centre, penned a book about his experiences, a copy of which sits in the Imperial War Museum.
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image captionThe Duke receives a posy after the Queen handed out Maundy money at Manchester Cathedral in 2007
For more than half a century, Prince Philip demonstrated his passion for helping young people from across Greater Manchester achieve their dreams.
The same urge to nurture young talent that inspired the prince to set up the Duke Of Edinburgh s Award scheme was evident in his long-standing association with the University of Salford.
Philip became the university s first chancellor when it officially opened in 1967, and quickly adopted a pragmatic approach.
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image captionAs Chancellor of Salford University in 1968, the Duke of Edinburgh listened to students taking part in worldwide protests
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