Joseph John Farmer

Joseph John Farmer VC, (15 May 1854 - 30 June 1930) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Details

He was 26 years old, and a Provisional Lance-Corporal in the Army Hospital Corps (later Royal Army Medical Corps), British Army during the Second Naga Hills Expedition when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 27 February 1881, at the Majuba Mountain in South Africa, when the Boers closed with the British troops near the Wells, Corporal Farmer held a white flag over the wounded and when the arm holding the flag was shot through, he then raised the flag with the other arm and continued to do so until that one also was shot through.

Further information

He later achieved the rank of Corporal.

The medal

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Army Medical Services Museum "(Aldershot, England)".

References

*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)

External links

* [http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/stewart/brompton.htm Location of grave and VC medal] "(Brompton Cemetery)"
* [http://www.barmy.co.uk/ramc/farmer.htm Lance Corporal J.J. Farmer]
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