it is a huge paintings in each experience, it's the made of a few 35 years of study that took the writer to greater than fifty international locations and hundreds of thousands of cemeteries and churchyards. His target used to be to record each identified position world-wide of the ultimate resting locations and significant memorials to every of the recipients of the VC, with specific emphasis on recording the precise position of just about 300 holders who presently don't have any gravestone, memorial or different marker. He additionally wanted to right the very huge variety of formerly released error in relation to locations and dates. many of the recipients stipulated they sought after not anything to mark their grave; Piper Laidlaw (Loos, September 1915) used to be this type of. a complete of 1,353 members acquired the award and this ebook documents the ultimate resting areas of 1,322 of them, lots of them in lengthy forgotten graves around the global. 3 of them got the award two times, 299 have been posthumous. the yank Unknown Warrior of the good battle used to be provided one in go back for the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honour bestowed at the British Unknown Warrior (who used to be now not presented the VC), and this makes a complete of 1,357 awards. every one access is indexed in chronological order of deed and numbered therefore in the beginning of the 1st line of the access, which additionally supplies the identify, final recognized rank and unit by means of the site of the deed, less than that is one other quantity. this can be the placement of the identify the place the recipients are indexed alphabetically, as within the sign in of the Victoria pass. different details given contains date of start and loss of life, position of burial, short description of the deed with the recipient’s rank on the time, by means of nature and placement of any memorial. The appendices comprise a mine of knowledge together with: gazetteer with situation of each grave and recognized memorial, awards through regiment, awards by means of wars/campaigns, awards through rank in all the providers, kinfolk awards, forfeitures, posthumous awards, awards because the results of ballots, museums the place the medals should be obvious, and extra besides.