🌺 Five Victoria Crosses — Five Graves of the Great War 🌺 In the First World War, the Victoria Cross was Britain’s highest award for gallantry — given for extraordinary bravery in the face of the enemy. It did not promise survival. It did not promise a future. For these five men, it marked an act of courage — and, not long after, the end of their lives. Second Lieutenant Donald Simpson Bell Yorkshire Regiment A schoolteacher. A professional footballer. On 5 July 1916, during the Battle of the S