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Samuel Harvey (ice Hockey)
Samuel Harvey may refer to: * Samuel Harvey (VC) (1881–1960), British Victoria Cross recipient. * Samuel Harvey (politician) Major Sir Samuel Emile Harvey DL (7 December 1885 – 9 November 1959) was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons for all but one of the years from 1922 to 1935. Early life Harvey was born in Cornwall to Sir ... (1885–1959), British politician from the Conservative Party * Samuel Harvey (footballer) (born 2009), Turks and Caicos Islands football goalkeeper {{hndis, Harvey, Samuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Harvey (VC)
Samuel Harvey VC (17 September 1881 – 23 September 1960) 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 34 years old and a private in the 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 29 September 1915 in the "Big Willie" Trench near the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, during a heavy bombing (hand grenade) attack, more bombs were urgently required and private Harvey volunteered to fetch them. The communication trench was blocked with wounded and reinforcements and he went backwards and forwards across open ground under intense fire and succeeded in bringing up 30 boxes before he was wounded in the head. It was largely owing to his cool bravery in supplying the bombs that the enemy was eventually driven back. Harvey r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Harvey (politician)
Major Sir Samuel Emile Harvey DL (7 December 1885 – 9 November 1959) was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons for all but one of the years from 1922 to 1935. Early life Harvey was born in Cornwall to Sir Robert Harvey, a Cornish businessman who had struck it rich in the nitrate business in Chile, and Robert's wife Alida Marie Godefroy, a Franco-Peruvian lady whom Robert had married while working in Iquique during the time of the War of the Pacific and the transfer of that area from Peruvian to Chilean control. He was educated at Eton until 1902, and in 1905 he joined the 1st King's Dragoon Guards. He was with the regiment in India when World War I began. The Dragoon Guards arrived in to France in November 1914, and soon mounted a cavalry charge, one of the few in that war. The unit was gassed and Harvey's health never recovered. Career Harvey was elected at 1922 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Totnes, after th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
