Colonel Sir Charles Geoffrey Vickers V.C
Born 13 October, 1894.
Served in the 1/7th Robin Hood Battalion, Sherwood Foresters.
Charles Vickers qualified as a Solicitor in 1923 and had a very distinguished career. During World War II he was re-commissioned as a Colonel and from 1941 to 1945 he was a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee of the Chiefs of Staff. He was knighted in 1946.
Victoria Cross citation
Printed in the London Gazette on 16 November 1915
“On 14th October, 1915, at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, when nearly all his men had been killed or wounded, and there were only two men available to hand him grenades, Captain Vickers held a barrier for some hours against heavy German bomb attacks, regardless of the fact that his own retreat would be cut off, he ordered a second barrier to be built behind him in order to secure the safety of the trench. Finally, he was severely wounded, but not before his courage and determination had enabled the second barrier to be completed.”
He died at his home in Goring-on-Thames on 16 March 1982.
