The author Brian Drummond, an ex-Gunner with twenty-three years’ service and a passion for regimental history in particular to those men awarded the Victoria Cross for their acts of bravery, has endeavoured to give the reader an insight into the life of each recipient of the Victoria Cross.

Ubique, The 62 Victoria Crosses of the Royal Regiment of Artillery is a series of six books covering the lives and extraordinary exploits of all the Victoria Cross recipients of the regiment that fought in the wars from 1853 (Crimean War: October 1853–March 1856) up to when Patrick Porteous VC, the last VC Gunner to have earned the cross at Dieppe in August 1942.

Part One - For Valour in the Crimean War brings together the life stories of the very varied group of nine officers and men spanning the period of war on the Crimean Peninsula. Each story will give the reader essential information on their birth, early life, enlistment in Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s armed forces, the individuals act of bravery, how being awarded the VC effects their lives up to their death and burial location. And finally, the current location of their Victoria Cross.

A valuable source to reference for any British Gunner historian.