Three times a hero on the Western Front

Three times a hero on the Western Front

A remarkable soldier from a famous Chesterfield family won the Military Cross an astonishing THREE times during World War One, as Barry M Marsden reports.

THE MILITARY CROSS was instituted in December 1914 for acts of gallantry by junior army officers in the face of the enemy. During World War One, 37,104 MCs were awarded to military personnel, and 2,984 officers gained bars to the medal. Only 168 received a second bar, and a mere four were granted a third. Victor Owen Robinson, Chesterfield-born member of the famous local family, was one of the 168 warriors to win the MC three times, an outstanding feat long forgotten by his native town…