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The Victoria Cross Hunters In Search of Valour Episode 10 - Number 16 Guy Wylly VC
Wounded and under fire, would you give up your only means of escape to save someone else?
At number 16 in our Top 20 Victoria Cross countdown, Ron Howard and Adam Pearce explore the extraordinary life of Guy Wylly VC.
On 1 September 1900, eight mounted scouts rode into a Boer ambush near Warmbad, South Africa. Six were wounded. Despite his own injuries, Wylly gave his horse to Corporal E. S. Brown, then took cover behind a rock and fought to protect his comrades’ retreat.
We examine the action that earned both Wylly and John Bisdee the Victoria Cross, before following Wylly’s career from…
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