V.C. Hero at Harrow Topical Budget 183-2

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V.C. Hero at Harrow Topical Budget 183-2


Schoolboy soldiers march in rank as Jack Dimmer, who was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1914, pays a visit to Harrow School.

Jack Dimmer received the VC after repairing a machine gun while under fire in November 1914, getting shot five times in the process. Here, accompanied by Brigadier-General Colomb, he inspects the School's Officers' Training Corps at Harrow School, hundreds of whom march past the camera in the Harrow streets. Dimmer, who was born In Lambeth and raised in Wimbledon, was to die in action shortly before the war's conclusion.

Jack Dimmer received the VC after repairing a machine gun while under fire in November 1914, getting shot five times in the process. Here, accompanied by Brigadier-General Colomb, he inspects the School’s Officers’ Training Corps at Harrow School, hundreds of whom march past the camera in the Harrow streets. Dimmer, who was born In Lambeth and raised in Wimbledon, was to die in action shortly before the war’s conclusion.


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