Plaque, Sergeant Robert Quigg VC
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Plaque, Sergeant Robert Quigg VC
Image: © Kenneth Allen Taken: 18 Aug 2016
For clarity, the text is copied here: No. 12/18645 SERGEANT ROBERT QUIGG V.C. 12th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles Robert Quigg (1885-1955) was awarded the Victoria Cross medal for most conspicuous bravery at the Battle of the Somme. "On 1st July 1916, he advanced to the assault with his platoon three times. Early next morning, hearing a rumour that his platoon officer was lying out wounded, he went out seven times to look for him under heavy shell and machine gun fire, each time bringing back a wounded man. The last man he dragged in on a waterproof sheet from within a few yards of the enemy's wire. He was seven hours engaged in this most gallant work and finally was so exhausted that he had to give it up." After his service with the army, be returned home to live near Bushmills and is buried in the graveyard of Billy Parish Church. Pictured here Image]
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