Frederick Watson Harvey VC 1917

#OnThisDay 1917 Frederick Watson Harvey, from Meath, was under heavy machinegun-fire, ran forward of his men, jumped the enemy barbed wire, shot the machine-gunner & captured the gun. For this, he got the Victoria Cross.

Harvey had two caps for @IrishRugby.

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