VC information
Father and son winners:
Captain Walter Congreve
, Rifle Brigade, won the VC at Colenso. His son, Brigade Major Billy Congreve, received a posthumous award for gallantry on the Western Front in July 1916.
Lieutenant (later Field Marshal Earl) Roberts
was awarded the VC during the Indian Mutiny. His son,
Lieutenant Frederick Roberts
, received a posthumous award in 1899.