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- Lance Corporal Cecil Reginald Noble VC (4 June 1891 − 13 March 1915) was a British Army soldier and a posthumous English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was killed at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle during the First World War. Noble was born in Bournemouth, then part of Hampshire, the son of Frederick Leopold Noble, a decorator, and his wife Hannah. The family lived in Capstone Road and he attended St Clement's Elemenary School. He disliked his given forename and was known by friends and family as Tommy; he enlisted in the British Army in 1914, the same year the First World War began, under the name of Reginald. He was 23 years old, and an Acting Corporal in the 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), on the Western Front when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. On 12 March 1915 at Neuve Chapelle, France, when the advance of the battalion was impeded by wire entanglements and by very severe machine-gun fire, Corporal Noble and another man (Harry Daniels) voluntarily rushed in front and succeeded in cutting the wires. They were both wounded, and Corporal Noble later died of his injuries. Daniels survived to receive his Victoria Cross and later rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Noble was buried at Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery, two miles south of Saint-Omer, France, in plot I, row A, grave 57. (en)
- セシル・レジナルド・ノーブル（英語: Cecil Reginald Noble, VC 1891年6月4日 - 1915年3月13日）は、イギリス陸軍の軍人。敵前での勇敢な行為を対象とするヴィクトリア十字章を授与された。最終階級は陸軍下級伍長（Lance-Corporal）。 当時23歳だったノーブル下級伍長（第2大隊所属）は、フランス北部で行われたに参加。1915年3月12日、にて、部隊は機関銃と鉄条網で防備された無人地帯を突破し、ドイツ帝国軍の塹壕まで前進するように命令を受けた。ノーブルとハリー・ダニエルズ中隊最先任上級曹長は自発的にカッターを携えて駆け出し、鉄条網の切断に成功した。二人は負傷し、ノーブルは翌日に傷がもとで死去したが、この活躍でヴィクトリア十字章が死後追贈された。 パ＝ド＝カレー県サントメールの2マイル南にあるロンゲネス記念墓地に埋葬されている。 (ja)
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