Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, English Field Marshal and a recipient of the Victoria Cross Finish:none D a brass ball held

D a brass ball held at a distance of two or three inches from the prime conductor by an assistant

Queen Victoria with two of her grandchildren

Sir Orlando Bridgeman was not a Fellow of the Royal Society

Celebrities including singer Kathy Kirby and Bruce Forsyth singing carols in Trafalgar Square

saying it would put too much power in the hands of the lower classes

Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, English Field Marshal and a recipient of the Victoria Cross Finish:none D a brass ball heldSir Henry Evelyn Wood, English Field Marshal and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, 1902. Wood (1838 1919) won his VC when a Lieutenant during the Indian Mutiny in 1858. Portrait from Celebrities of the Army, published by George Newnes, (London, 1902).