A rush to victory – and the Victoria Cross
When former soldier Joseph Crowe Snr and his wife Classina Vermaak welcomed their son Joseph Petrus Hendrik into the world in Uitenhage on 12 January 1826, they might well have predicted that the child would one day serve in the military. But few would have dared imagine that he would receive the British Empire’s highest military honour.
BIRTH AND EARLY MILITARY CAREER
Joseph Snr served as a lieutenant in
