Topical Budget: VC Hero At Harrow, Harrow (1915)
ProRes digital file Black & White Mute 1915 0:57
Summary: Schoolboy soldiers march in rank as Jack Dimmer, who was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1914, pays a visit to Harrow School.
Title number: 19864
LSA ID: LSA/26308
Description: Accompanied by Brigadier-General Colomb, Jack Dimmer inspects the School’s Officers’ Training Corps at Harrow School, hundreds of whom march past the camera in the Harrow streets.
Cast: Dimmer, Jack
Further information: Jack Dimmer received the VC after repairing a machine gun while under fire in November 1914, getting shot five times in the process. Dimmer, who was born In Lambeth and raised in Wimbledon, was to die in action shortly before the war’s conclusion.
Keywords: School; soldiers
Locations: Harrow, London
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