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Charles Lucas, La Loïe Fuller aux Folies Bergère, 1910.

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Midshipman Monday: Mr. Lucas Saves the Day

'Mr Lucas throwing the burning shell off the deck of the Hecla at Bomersund' 1854 print (NMM).

In the Crimean War, Midshipman Charles Lucas became the first person to be awarded a Victoria Cross, the highest recognition for gallantry in the British Empire, when he seized a live shell with the fuse still hissing aboard HMS Hecla and flung it overboard during the Battle of Bomarsund in August 1854.

Another illustration of the heroic Midshipman Lucas, from his entry on Victoria Cross: The Men Behind the Medals, which also has a biography. Lucas died peacefully at home at 80 years of age in 1914, just as the First World War was breaking out.

A view from the quarter deck of HMS Bulldog in the Battle of Bomersund (Wikimedia Commons). Midshipmen stand at left.

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Marion Moore, screen writer and co-chair of the Stage Door Canteen kitchen committee, shows the baker where to put the finishing touches of butter cream on the Canteen’s birthday cake, March 3, 1945. This was the Canteen's third birthday.

Photo: Charles Lucas for the AP via WXYZ

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Charles Lucas : Died August 28, 1648

Sir Charles Lucas, 1613 to 28 August 1648, was a professional soldier from Essex, who served as a Royalist cavalry leader during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms....

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~ Charles Lucas, circa 1897

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John Fry Survey (1849)

John Fry Survey (1849)

John Fry survey (1849), 44 acres, Left Hand Fork of Green Shoal Creek, Logan County, VA. Surveyors Record Book B, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. This property is located in present-day Lincoln County, WV. Note: I descend from three of John Fry’s children: Christian Fry, Emily Fry, and Druzilla Fry.

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1,358 VC’s have been awarded since 1854 but have you ever wondered who was first? 

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Baptist Fry Deed to Charles Lucas (1853)

Baptist Fry Deed to Charles Lucas (1853) #BigUglyCreek #LincolnCounty #WV #Appalachia #genealogy

Deed Book C, page 515, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. I descend from three siblings of Baptist Fry and also from Charles Lucas’ brother, William.

Deed Book C, page 516, Logan County Clerk’s Office, Logan, WV. Today, this property is located in Lincoln County, WV.

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