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How are two of the people who have won the Victoria cross twice connected?
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Noel Godfrey Chavasse and Arthur Martin-Leake where both doctors in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Both received their Victoria Cross and Bar for two actions of rescuing wounded under fire. The two actually met when Noel Godfrey Chavasse was mortality wounded in Belgium, during the action that earned him Bar on his Victoria Cross. Arthur Martin-Leake was one of the medical officers that treated him.
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