Awards & Winners

James Emerson

Date of Birth 03-August-1895
Place of Birth Collon
(Ireland)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Soldier
James Samuel Emerson VC was a British Army officer, and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, 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 James Emerson

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1917


Victoria Cross
(Posthumously awarded., For repeated acts of most conspicuous bravery his actions that took place on 6 December 1917, as a temporary Second Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Tyrone Volunteers), British Army during the First World War.)