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William George Nicholas Manley was born on 17 December 1831.
He was connected with the 12th Regiment of Foot as a Surgeon during the New Zealand Wars.[1] He was awarded the New Zealand medal for his service.[2]
Manley was the only recipient of both the British Victoria Cross and the German Iron Cross. He served with distinction as a surgeon with the Royal Artillery during the Crimean War, but earned his VC in the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s, rescuing troops who were wounded while storming an enemy stronghold. In the Franco- Prussian War, Manley and his ‘Woolwich ambulance’ were attached to the German army, who awarded him the Iron Cross for seeking out wounded soldiers. At the siege of Paris in 1871, he tended to French casualties and was decorated by the French Red Cross.
He died peacefully in Cheltenham aged 69 on 16 November 1901.
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