Northern Irish Victoria Cross recipients

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Always looking for an excuse to get the bike out & about, so I thought I would start this post & hopefully add to it, as & when
First up & very appropriate, as his act of valour was the 1st to be recommended for the VC
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Located on the wall of the British Legion hall in Pontzpass, Co Armagh
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Charles Lucas (Royal Navy officer) - Wikipedia https://share.google/qPmeIYBPdeyYHB0TP
 
Absolutely, I have visited there many times & had coffee in Col Paddy's beside it
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His grave is not too far away either
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A bit more about Lucas' award. https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-203244 And even more about his subsequent career. His marriage, in his 40s, is unusual and very much of that era, I think ...

"In 1878, Lucas received a summons to the deathbed of his former captain, Admiral Sir William Hutcheson Hall, who had an unusual request. He begged Lucas to take care of his wife Hilaire and to marry his only daughter Frances Russell Hall. Lucas agreed to the request, and married Frances, who was the granddaughter of the 6th Viscount Torrington in 1879. They went on to have three daughters.!"
 
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