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NORMAN WATSON: Rare Scottish VC goes to auction
Cameronians VC, (Dix Noonan Web).
The Victoria Crosses awarded to Scottish regiments are, by and large, in national institutions, military museums or in the astonishing collection assembled by Lord Ashcroft at the Imperial War Museum. Few remain in private hands.
There should be considerable interest, therefore, in the VC awarded to 21-year-old Private James Towers, 2nd Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), which comes up for sale this week at coin and medal specialists Dix Noonan Web in London.
Pte Towers, with utter disregard for his own safety, volunteered to carry a vital message to a stranded platoon at Mericourt in October 1918, whilst in the knowledge that five of his comrades had already been in killed in turn making attempts to carry out the same task.
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Western Massachusetts honor guard to participate in virtual inaugural parade for President Joe Biden
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
Members of the Massachusetts Veterans of Foreign Wars State Honor guard were selected to participate in the virtual inaugural parade. Here is the group in Szot Park in Chicopee. (submitted photo)
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CHICOPEE There will be no crowds at this year’s presidential inauguration in Washington, and the traditional ball has been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But five Western Massachusetts veterans who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan will be there virtually to honor the flag and the country’s veterans from World War II.