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.
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.