Lots of childhood memories of this one. Growing up on a small Scottish farm in Kinross-shire I knew the old ploughman Jim Thompson and hadn't been aware that his late son was a 2nd World War VC. A few years later at the age of 15 I was awarded the Dux medal as the 'best pupil leaving Kinross Junior Secondary School 1958'- the George Thompson VC Memorial Medal (I still have it) and its only in these later years I became aware of George Thompson VC.
See the wikipedia entry here
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