Memorial is unveiled to VC winner

A World War I Victoria Cross winner has been honoured with the dedication of a memorial in Nottinghamshire.

Charles Ernest Garforth of the 15th The King's Hussars was awarded the medal for three times braving gunfire to help comrades at the start of the war.

Local historians have worked together to have his deeds remembered, 35 years after his death.

Mr Garforth is the last of the county's nine VC winners to get a memorial, which stands in Wilford Hill Cemetery.

Museum exhibit

On 23 August 1914, at Harmignies in Belgium, Corporal Garforth volunteered to cut wire under fire, enabling his squadron to escape.

A week later, under constant fire, he extricated a sergeant lying under his dead horse and carried him to safety.

And the following day, when another soldier had lost his horse in a similar way, he drew away the enemy fire and enabled his comrade to escape.

He died on 1 July 1973, and his ashes were scattered in the Garden of Rest at Wilford Hill. His Victoria Cross and other medals are displayed at the Imperial War Museum in London.