James Pitts (VC)
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Details
Pitts was 22 years old, and a private in the 1st Battalion, the Manchester Regiment, British Army, during the Second Boer War when the following deed in Natal took place for which he and Private Robert Scott were awarded the VC: Template:Quote
He later achieved the rank of corporal and served in World War I.[1] He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in 1918.[2]
The medal
His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Museum of the Manchesters, Ashton-under-Lyne, England.
In 2019, a plaque in his honour was unveiled at Blackburn town hall.[3]
References
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- The Four Blackburn VC's (H. L. Kirby and R. R. Walsh)
- Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
- The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)
- Victoria Crosses of the Anglo-Boer War (Ian Uys, 2000)
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- Second Boer War recipients of the Victoria Cross
- British recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Manchester Regiment soldiers
- People from Blackburn
- 1877 births
- 1955 deaths
- British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
- British Army personnel of World War I
- British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Recipients of the Meritorious Service Medal (United Kingdom)
- Burials in Lancashire
- Military personnel from Lancashire