Victoria Cross: 'Inspiring' WW1 messenger's medal sold for £248,000
BBC News Published image copyrightOther image captionPte Towers braved heavy machine gun fire and barbed wire as he raced to the stranded platoon A Victoria Cross awarded to a World War One soldier who braved enemy fire to deliver orders to a stranded platoon has sold for £248,000 at auction. Pte James Towers received the medal for volunteering to take the orders despite having seen five messengers shot down in Mericourt, France in October 1918. More than a decade later, the Broughton farmer told a newspaper he felt he had to help, as "they were my pals". Christopher Mellor-Hill, spokesman f...
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