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Patrick Porteous
Captain Patrick Porteous, VC, Royal Artillery (1 January 1918 - 9 October2000) was awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military honour, first instituted by Queen Victoria in 1856, for his part in the 1942 assault on Dieppe, France in the Second World War.
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