Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29146, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29146/supplements/4143. His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned for their conspicuous acts of bravery and devotion to duty whilst serving with the Expeditionary Force:- No. 6016 Private Jacob Rivers, late 1st Battalion, The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery at Neuve Chapelle on 12th March 1915, when he, on his own initiative, crept to within a few yards of a very large number of the enemy who were massed on the flank of an advanced company of his battalion, and hurled bombs on them. His action caused the enemy to retire, and so relieved the situation. Private Rivers performed a second act of great bravery on the same day, similar to the first-mentioned, again causing the enemy to retire. He was killed on this occasion.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29146, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29146/supplements/4143. His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned for their conspicuous acts of bravery and devotion to duty whilst serving with the Expeditionary Force:- No. 6016 Private Jacob Rivers, late 1st Battalion, The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery at Neuve Chapelle on 12th March 1915, when he, on his own initiative, crept to within a few yards of a very large number of the enemy who were massed on the flank of an advanced company of his battalion, and hurled bombs on them. His action caused the enemy to retire, and so relieved the situation. Private Rivers performed a second act of great bravery on the same day, similar to the first-mentioned, again causing the enemy to retire. He was killed on this occasion.