A 17-year-old soldier went on parade yesterday carrying the Victoria Cross awarded posthumously to his courageous great great uncle 87 years ago.
Junior Cpl Carl Clamp, from Hawick, in the Scottish Borders, was graduating from the Army Foundation College, in Harrogate, which he joined a year ago.
When he told the staff about the heroics in the First World War of great great uncle Cpl William Clamp from Motherwell, they arranged for him to visit the Green Howards Museum in Richmond, which now owns the medal.
The museum agreed to allow Jnr Cpl Clamp to carry the medal with him on parade in Harrogate, although military protocol prevented him from wearing it while in uniform.
According to an Army spokesman Cpl William Clamp was 25 years old and with the 6th Yorkshires when he won the Victoria Cross for his actions during the advance at Poelcapelle, near Passchendaele, in Belgium on October 9, 1917.
"I feel it is a great honour to have my great great uncle in the family and to have his medal with me on parade," said Jnr Cpl Clamp, who has been studying his heroic ancestor's history as part of his studies at the college.
