Godfrey Meynell was a British Indian Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
10 Facts About Godfrey Meynell
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Godfrey Meynell was commended to Cyril Connolly when he arrived there as a boy with character.
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Godfrey Meynell had graduated 13th at Sandhurst before he volunteered for the British Indian Army.
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Godfrey Meynell was awarded the Military Cross in 1933 for his work in Chitral.
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Godfrey Meynell was thirty-one years old, and a captain in the 5th Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment during the 1935 Mohmand Campaign in British India.
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Godfrey Meynell married "Jill", Sophia Patricia Lowis, at the Guides Chapel in Mardan on 31 January 1933; both were speakers of Urdu.
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On 29 September 1935 at Mohmand, in the Nahaqi Pass within the Khyber Pass on the North West Frontier, in the final phase of an attack, Godfrey Meynell, seeking information on the most forward troops, found them involved in a struggle against an enemy vastly superior in numbers.
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Godfrey Meynell's body is laid to rest at the Guides Chapel in Mardan, near Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province, where he and his wife were married.
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Three months later their second son, Hugo Anthony Godfrey Meynell, was born on 24 March 1936.
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Godfrey Meynell's widow received the VC at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 14 July 1936, the only one to be handed out by Edward VIII.