How I Won My VC on Hill 70, by Trooper Frederick Potts VC | 21 August 1915 | Episode 95
Published on 21 August 1915
A frontal attack upon a strongly fortified Turkish position stretching from Hill 70 to Hill 112 was made on the afternoon of August 21, 1915. It was in the course of this advance that the teller of this story, Trooper Frederick William Owen Potts, of the 1st Berkshire Yeomanry, was struck down and later performed the unparalleled act for which he was awarded the V.C.
For nearly fifty hours Trooper Potts remained under fire with a severely wounded comrade, "although he himself could have returned to safety," says the official record. Finally, the trooper, in the extraordinary manner which he here describes, saved his comrade's life.
Trooper Potts was only 22 years old, and the first Yeoman to win the most coveted of all distinctions.