Item - The Victoria Cross' or, Surgeon Adair's Bravery

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Online Full Text:	Digital Library @ Villanova University Northern Illinois University
Series:	Good News — v. 5 no. 113 — page 1805
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	Good News, v. 5, no. 113, July 2, 1892 (Issue)
Author:	Egerton, Sterry
Date:	July 2, 1892
First Sentence:	"Say, Percy, what is the outlook for glory on this campaign, anyhow?..."
Last Sentence:	What took place between them on their recovery, none ever knew, but when the Biluch infantry marched back to Mandalay no closer friends were to be found in the whole command than Lieutenant Collroke and Surgeon Adair, and two months later it was Lieutenant Collroke himself who presented by special permission the Victoria Cross to Surgeon Jack Adair for valor, as the dispatch read, in saving a wounded comrade at the risk of his own life.