About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 21. Chapters: Adolf Michel, Adolph Cederstrom, Ake Lundeberg, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blinov, Aleksandr Gazov, Alfred Swahn, Allen Whitty, Anders Lindskog, Arvid Knoppel, Axel Ekblom, Axel Londen, Bengt Lagercrantz, Charles de Jaubert, Charles Nix, Cyril Mackworth-Praed, Dennis Fenton, Dimitri Lykin, Dmitri Barkov (sport shooter), Eberhard Steinbock, Edward Benedicks, Emil Andersson, Emil Lindewald, Erland Koch, Ernst Rosell, Ernst Rosenqvist, Fredric Landelius, Geng Hongbin, Heinrich Elbogen, Helmut Bellingrodt, Herbert Perry (sport shooter), Hjalmar Frisell, Huang Shiping, Huvi Tuiskunen, Igor Sokolov, Iivar Vaananen, John Faunthorpe, John Larsen, Joshua Millner, Kalle Lappalainen, Karl Larsson (sport shooter), Karl Magnus Wegelius, Li Jie (running target shooter), Li Yuwei, Martti Liuttula, Mauritz Johansson, Natalya Gurova, Nestori Toivonen, Nikolaos Levidis, Oleg Moldovan, Oscar Swahn, Otto Hultberg, Per-Olof Arvidsson, Per Kinde, Peter Paternelli, Philip Neame, Raymond Coulter, Sandor Lumniczer, Thomas Brown (sport shooter), Toivo Tikkanen, Tor Heiestad, Vasily Skrotsky, Vilho Vauhkonen, Walter Ellicott, Walter Stokes, Walter W. Winans, William Leushner, William Libbey, William McDonnell, Xiao Jun, Yakov Zheleznyak, Yang Ling, Yrjo Kolho, Lukasz Czapla. Excerpt: Lieutenant General Sir Philip Neame VC, KBE, CB, DSO, KStJ (12 December 1888 - 28 April 1978) was a British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was also the winner of an Olympic Gold medal, making him the only person to win both this and the Victoria Cross. Neame was born in Faversham and died in Selling. He was educated at Cheltenham College. Neame joined the Royal Engineers in 1908. He saw service with the 15th Field Company, Royal Engineers, during the First World War. Early in the war at the First Battle of Ypres on October 1914 Neame experienced first hand in the trenches the inadequacies of the official British issue hand-grenades against the German standard and set about creating an alternative. Royal Engineers started devising home-made hand grenades made from empty jam tins filled with rivets, hobnails and loose metal. The explosive was usually two small bits of gun-cotton with a detonator and the necessary bit of fuse projecting from the end of the jam tin. Under the leadership of Neame, Royal Engineer sappers were kept busy in the first winter of World War I manfucturing as many as were needed. Neame was 26 years old, and a lieutenant in the 15th Field Company, Corps of Royal Engineers, when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross: On 19 December 1914 at Neuve Chapelle, France, Lieutenant Neame, in the face of very heavy fire, engaged the Germans in a single-handed bombing attack, killing and wounding a number of them. He was able to check the enemy advance for three-quarters of an hour and to rescue all the wounded whom it was possible to move. Neame was interviewed at length on the action for the book "Forgotten Voices." He had been asked by the Commanding Officer of a frontline infantry battalion - West Yorkshire Regiment - to go forward and strengthen the defences in a recently captured Ger
