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Our soldier's stories -2
Noel Godfrey Chavasse - Victoria Cross
One of three people awarded a Victoria Cross twice, doctor and Olympic athlete Noel Godfrey Chavasse was among 564,715 British Army casualties in Northern France and Flanders in World War I.
Northern France is home to the greatest number of British memorial sites on the French Western Front in World War I and hence a place of pilgrimage for everyone from families on the trace of a missing loved one to history buffs and school groups who want to learn about the terrible conflict and its impact on the world today. Among the region’s heroes, British Army officer, medical doctor and Olympic athlete Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse from Oxford was the only man awarded the Victoria Cross twice in the First World War, once for trying to save comrades in the Battle of Guillemont between Amiens and Arras. He died of his wounds in 1917.