Great Courage and Initiative - The Heroic Life of George Ingram VC, MM. - By Anthony McAleer OAM

By today’s standards George Mawby Ingram lived a courageous life.
‘This NCO showed great courage and initiative’.
Recommendation for Military Medal, March 1917
‘He showed the most splendid qualities of courage and leadership’.
Recommendation for Victoria Cross, October 1918
From a country boyhood growing up on the family’s orchards at Bagshot and Seville to his pre-war militia service in the Australian Garrison Artillery and the first year of World War One manning the guns at Rabaul in former German New Guinea.
A dose of malaria in the Pacific had him sent home and discharged however this didn’t stop him, five hours later he walked into a recruiting office in Melbourne and enlisted in the AIF. With the 24th Battalion he was sent to Europe and during his first action on the front line, at Bapaume, he was awarded the Military Medal.
Over the next two years he experienced all the horror and heroism of the Western Front with the men who wore the red and white diamond. He survived the killing grounds of Bullecourt, Ypres, Flanders, Passchendaele, Villers Bretonneux and Mont St Quentin. He saw many good mates sacrificed and lost both his brothers in the war.
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