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© IWM (HU 119840) Lieutenant Francis Bernard Chavasse. Royal Army Medical Corps
All four of Chavasse's brothers served with distinction in the First World War. The eldest, Christopher Chavasse, won the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. He later became rector of St Aldate's, Oxford and subsequently Bishop of Rochester. His twin brother, Noel, a surgeon, who won the Military Cross and the only double Victoria Cross awarded throughout the war, was killed in action in 1917. The third brother, Francis Bernard, won the Military Cross and later became a leading ophthalmic surgeon. The youngest, Aidan, was killed in action in 1917. © IWM (HU 119836) Lieutenant Colonel Frank Beauchamp Macaulay Chatterton CMG. General Staff, Army Service Corps.
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