Lieutenant William David Kenny VC - 4th Bn, 39th Garhwal Rifles, Indian Army


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by Melvin Charles Smith
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"Bonner VC. The Biography of Gus Bonner: VC and Master Mariner"
by Susan Satterthwaite

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"Heart of a Dragon"
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"A Party Fit For Heroes"
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by Derek Hunt & John Mulholland

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"British Battles and Medals" - 7th Edition.
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"Victoria Cross Heroes - Volume I"
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"Valour & Gallantry"
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by Chris Kempton

Military Press, 2001, ISBN 0-85420-281-1

"Bravest of the Brave"
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by John Glanfield

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"Victoria Cross - Australia's Finest and the Battles They Fought"
by Anthony Staunton

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"The Singular Journey of O'Hea's Cross"
by Elizabeth Reid

Leamcon Press, Yale, British Columbia, 2005, ISBN 0 9738741 0 4
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"Sharpshooter in the Crimea"
by Michael Springman

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"Symbol of Courage"
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by Max Arthur

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"For Valour - Victoria Cross and Medal of Honor Battles"
by Bryan Perrett

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"Monuments to Courage"
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by David Harvey

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"The Sapper VCs"
by Gerald Napier

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"The Evolution of the Victoria Cross"
by M. J. Crook

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"VCs of the First World War" (a series)
by Gerald Gliddon

Sutton Publishing Limited
During the First World War 628 men were awarded the Victoria Cross and have
been written about in the thirteen books in the 'VCs of the First World War' series.
1. 1914
2. The Somme 1916
3. Arras & Messines 1917
4. Cambrai 1917
5. Spring Offensive 1918
6. The Road to Victory 1918
7. The Final Days 1918
8. The Sideshows

"VCs of the First World War" (a series)
by Stephen Snelling

Sutton Publishing Limited
9. Gallipoli 1915
10. Passchendaele 1917
11. The Naval VCs

"VCs of the First World War" (a series)
by Peter G Cooksley

Sutton Publishing Limited
12. The Air VCs

"VCs of the First World War" (a series)
by Peter F Batchelor & Christopher Matson

Sutton Publishing Limited
13. The Western Front 1915

"British VCs of World War 2 - A Study in Heroism"
by John Laffin

Sutton Publishing Limited, 1997, ISBN 0 7509 1026 7

"Courage Remembered"
by Major Edwin Gibson MBE & G. Kingsley Ward

The story behind the construction and maintenance of the Commonwealth's
Military Cemeteries and Memorials of the Wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945
Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1989, ISBN 0 11 772608 7

"Covenant with Death"
by John Harris (a novel)

Arrow Books, 1975, ISBN 0 09 910690 6

"The Middle Parts of Fortune" ("Her Privates We")
by Frederic Manning (a novel)

Buchan & Enright Publishers, London, 1929, ISBN 0 907675 55 7

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Iain Stewart, 30 April 2022