The Potts Story

This is all about Frederick William Owen Potts VC, Reading's only Great War Victoria Cross holder. His story is told in a number of pages - just click on one of the following:-

We start with his early life

Then retell the incident on Scimitar Hill when he won his VC

and next the story of his later life until he died in 1943

The newspapers of the time gave a lot of coverage to him and the incident.

The man he rescued was Trooper Arthur Andrews. Here Andrews' grandson recalls his grandfather's life.

The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest award for gallantry

Others from Berkshire have won the VC since it was instituted

You can read more about the Battle of Scimitar Hill

and some of the men who fought alongside him

and finally we reproduce his story as told inn the boy's magazine The Victor in 1968

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