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My answers on the VC would be faster (and more informed) if I had a copy of Crook's book at home, rather than access via a non-lending library on the other side of the city. *If anyone knows of a copy for sale, let me know (I suspect it will be very expensive).
The moral lapses that led to forfeiture of VCs are intriguing, for the first Canadian recipient (Alexander Dunn, VC won at charge of the Light Brigade) turned out to be a brave lieutenant and captain but a disaster at any higher rank. *When given commend of a regiment, he proved popular with the men but drill and discipline ceased to have meaning. *Dunn himself was a notorious skirt chaser who once ran off with his Commanding Officer's wife and was disappointed when the CO refused to divorce her. *He was reputedly killed in a hunting accident in Ethiopia; some thought he had been murdered by another officer at whose wife Dunn had made a pass.
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