Awards & Winners

Jack Harrison

Date of Birth 12-November-1890
Place of Birth Kingston upon Hull
(United Kingdom, England, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Riding of Yorkshire, Humberside, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Soldier
John "Jack" Harrison VC MC was a professional rugby league player for Hull, who became a British Army officer and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross during the First World War, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Awards by Jack Harrison

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1917


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 3rd May, 1917 as Second Lieutenant of the East Yorkshire Regiment during the First World War. Posthumously awarded.)