Collection of autographs and miscellaneous manuscript and typescript notes and papers, relating generally to the Victoria Cross, 1920-1983.
Compiled by William Murrell Lummis.
The most important items are: copies of the Victoria Cross Warrants, and lists of living Victoria Cross recipients arranged by their county of domicile, list of forfeitures of the Victoria Cross, list of Victory Cross winners who held Royal and Court appointments, file of correspondence and papers on the identity of the youngest person to win the Victoria Cross, incomplete list of Victoria Cross locations, lists of Victoria Cross recipients arranged by their places of education, list of VC winners buried in London cemeteries, and typescript of the chapter on the VC in Abbott and Tamplin ‘British Gallantry Awards’.