SOLDIERS who were awarded the Victoria Cross will be remembered at a golf tournament today.
The holes in the contest, at Forest Park Golf Club, Stockton-on-the-Forest, near York, have been named after 18 Green Howards who were presented with the Victoria Cross between 1855 and 1945.
There will be a card showing the medal, a photograph and details of the VC holders actions at each hole.
The first will be named after the only man to achieve the VC on D-Day, Sergeant Major Stanley Hollis, from Teesside.
Other soldiers to be remembered are the only English professional footballer with the VC, Second Lieutenant Donald Bell, who was killed in action in 1916, and the first Green Howards VC, Private John Lyons, who received his VC in 1855 during the Crimean War.
It is the fifth year the Green Howards Association's York branch has held an open golf tournament.
A team from the 1st Battalion, based at Ballykelly, in Northern Ireland, and players from Sandhurst and Manchester will be among 60 golfers taking part.
The competition is a day before the anniversary of the Battle of the Alma, which took place in the Crimea in 1854 and was the Green Howards first Battle Honour.
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