Liverpool Regiment
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HARRY HAMPTON  (Sergeant, now Sergeant-instructor in Musketry)  1^st Battalion Liverpool Regiment             On August 21^st 1900, Sergeant Hampton was in command of a party of mounted infantry at Van Wyk’s Vlei, and had been holding an important position for a considerable time against very heavy odds.  They were at length compelled to retire, but he saw all his men safely into cover before he would leave, and then, although himself severely wounded in the head, went to the assistance of Lance-Corporal Walsh, who was too badly injured to keep up with the rest, and supported him until the man was killed by another shot, he himself receiving a second wound shortly after. Sergeant Hampton, son of Mr. Samuel Hampton, of Crown Terrace, Richmond, Surrey, was born at that place December 14^th 1870.  Entered the 1^st Battalion king’s Liverpool Regiment at Aldershot, March 10^th 1889, rising to the rank of Corporal in exactly two years.  Saw service in the West Indies and Nova Scotia from 1891 to 1897, and in South Africa from the latter year till almost te close of the war.  His Commanding Officers on the day he won the Victoria Cross were Brevet-Major C. J. Stevenson and Major H. K. Stewart, K.C.B., and H.M. the King at St. James Palace presented the decoration to him in December 1901. 

H. J. KNIGHT  (Corporal)  1^st Battalion The King’s Liverpool Regiment; No. I Company 4^th Division Mounted Infantry              On august 21^st 1900, during operations near Van Wyk’s Vlei, Corporal Knight and four men were occupying a position behind some rocks, to cover the rear f a detachment of their company, which, under Captain Ewart, D.S.O., was holding the right of the line.  Being attacked on the right by about fifty Boers, Knight’s little band of four men was almost surrounded at very close quarters by the enemy.  Ordering them to retire one by one to a more sheltered position, he stayed at his post for nearly an hour, covering Captain Ewart’s force, during which two of his men were shot.  Placing one of them in a secure place he left him there, carrying the other for two miles on his back, the whole time being under a very hot fire from the enemy. 

WILLIAM HEATON  (Private, now Sergeant)  1^st Battalion The King’s Liverpool Regiment              At Geluk, on August 23^rd 1900, Private Heaton’s company, while advancing in front of the general line held by our troops, was surrounded, and, coming under a raking fire, was suffering most severely.  The position becoming serious the Commanding Officer requested Heaton to convey a message back, explaining the precarious situation in which the company stood, and asking for relief.  At the greatest possible risk, Heaton successfully accomplished his mission,,and there is no doubt that but for his great courage in undertaking so hazardous a duty, his company would have had a very heavy death-roll and been forced to surrender.