British Army’s first VC sells for £210,000
THE first Victoria Cross awarded to a soldier in the British Army sold for £210,000 (plus 20 per cent buyer's premium) at Spink in London on April 22. The Conservative Party donor and VC collector Lord Ashcroft was beaten to the prize by an anonymous buyer.
The VC was awarded to Major John Knox (d.1897) of the Scots Fusilier Guards for three acts of braver…