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Michael Heaviside, VC (1880 - 1939)


Michael Wilson Heaviside VC (1880-1939), served with the Royal Army Medical Corps as a stretcher-bearer in the Boer War, and later became a war hero in the First World War. He was awarded the Victoria Cross and in 1917 received a hero’s welcome home in Craghead where he returned to work as a miner. There is a mounted plaque dedicated to Michael Heaviside on Middles Road, opposite Craghead Childcare Centre. There is also a round plaque dedicated to him on the outside wall of Bloemfontein Primary School.

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Private Michael Heaviside VC arriving at Shield Row station
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M Heaviside - DLI - Craghead (Wounded)
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Middles Road with military memorial
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Michael Wilson Heaviside VC 1880 -1939
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