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.