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CD41 is proud to present a new archive audiobook CD For Valour, featuring unique first-hand accounts by winners of the Victoria Cross from both World Wars. The Victoria Cross is Britain?s highest and most prestigious bravery award. This 70 minute CD includes 15 original recordings made between 1915 and 1946 by VCs from all three armed services, including: SERGEANT EDWARD DWYER (1915) - Ypres , Hill 60, FLIGHT LIEUTENANT RODERICK LEAROYD (1940) - Bomber Command, FLIGHT LIEUTENANT J.B. NICOLSON (1940) - Battle of Britain, LIEUTENANT CHARLES UPHAM (1941 & 1942) - Crete (double VC), SERGEANT PILOT JAMES WARD (1941) - Bomber Command, COMMANDER ROBERT RYDER (1942) - St Nazaire raid, SERGEANT QUENTIN SMYTHE (1942) - Western Desert, FLIGHT SERGEANT R.H. MIDDLETON (1942) - Bomber Command, LIEUTENANTS B.C.G. PLACE & D. CAMERON (1943) - Tirpitz/X-craft, NAIK NAND SINGH (1944) - Arakan, Burma, FUSILIER F.A. JEFFERSON (1944) - Italian campaign, MAJOR JOHN MAHONY (KING GEORGE VI) (1944) - Italian campaign, SERGEANT-MAJOR STANLEY HOLLIS (1944) - D-Day, LIEUTENANT G.R. NORTON (1944), FLIGHT SERGEANT GEORGE THOMPSON (1945) - Bomber Command. All materials included are authentic wartime recordings and have been carefully digitally remastered for CD. The booklet includes archive images and detailed historical notes by James Hayward. This unique CD is must for all military historians, researchers, and collectors of historic sound recordings. A donation from the proceeds will be made to The Royal British Legion.