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Service Profile
- Branch
- British Army
- Rank
- Corporal
- Service Era
- Tirah Campaign, Second Boer War, World War I
- Medals Recorded
- 7
Samuel Vickery
Corporal, British Army
Support & adopt this hero ↓Tirah CampaignSecond Boer WarWorld War I
Awards & Decorations
- Victoria Cross
- India Medal 1895–1902
- Punjab Frontier 1897-98
- Tirah 1897-98
- Queen's South Africa Medal
- Relief of Kimberley
- Paardeberg
- Driefontein
- Johannesburg
- Diamond Hill
- Wittebergen
- South Africa 1901
- 1914-15 Star
- British War Medal 1914–1920
- Victory Medal (United Kingdom)
- King George VI Coronation Medal 1937
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Biography
He bore a wounded comrade to safety under fierce enemy fire.
Samuel Vickery was born near Chard, Somerset, in 1873 and worked as a farm labourer before joining the Dorset Regiment in 1893. He went to India in 1895.
During the attack on the Dargai Heights on 20 October 1897, Vickery ran down an exposed slope and brought a wounded comrade back under fire. His Victoria Cross also recognised his fighting in the Waran Valley the following month, when he was separated from his company. Queen Victoria presented his decoration at Netley Hospital in May 1898.
Vickery served in the Boer War, escaped captivity and was badly wounded at Nooitgedacht. Discharged medically unfit in 1901, he worked as a hospital attendant in Cardiff. He re-enlisted in 1914, served in France and later guarded prisoners and worked in the Labour Corps. After discharge as a sergeant in 1920, he became a Post Office commissionaire. He died at Cardiff on 20 June 1952.
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