BENTHAM town councillors have been discussing ways to remember the valour of two Victoria Cross winners fromWorld War One.
The VC is the highest military decoration, awarded for valour.
Following contact from David Croft, a historian with special interest in VC recipients from the Great War, the town council discovered that Charles Robertson VC was born on High Bentham's Wenning Avenue, and not in Penrith as originally thought.
The discovery means that Bentham is eligible for a VC memorial plaque to be installed on the centenary of Lance Corporal Robertson's act of valour in Belgium, in March 1918.
The Victoria Cross was also awarded to Rev Theodore Bayley Hardy, a chaplain in the British Army, who was headmaster of Bentham Grammar School for some years, and was vicar at Hutton Roof when war broke out. Bentham town councillors are considering purchasing a stone in his memory.
Councillors also agreed to ask local historian David Johnson about any VC winners from World War Two, so that they could consider any future memorials.
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