Boyhood scrapbook that belonged to one of Britain’s war heroes is bought by his former Oxford school
The poignant childhood scrapbook of the only man to be awarded two Victoria Crosses in the First World War has been acquired for £7,000 by his former Oxford school after it disappeared for nearly 120 years. Captain Noel Chavasse, a medic in the British Army who was fatally injured in Belgium in 1917, compiled the … Read more