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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Victoria Cross - Noel Godfrey Chavasse
| Issuer | States of Jersey |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | NOEL GODFREY CHAVASSE FOR VALOUR GUILLEMONT 1916 FIVE POUNDS |
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Noel Chavasse is one of only three men ever awarded the Victoria Cross twice — and the only one to receive both during the First World War. A medical officer with the King's Liverpool Regiment, he earned his first VC at the Somme in 1916 and his second posthumously at Passchendaele in 1917, dying of wounds on 4 August that year. Jersey's decision to honor him in this series is geographically oblique; Chavasse had no particular Channel Islands connection, but the island's VC commemorative program cast a deliberately wide net across British military history.