David Charles Harvey

He is notable for his seminal work, Monuments To Courage, which documents the graves of almost all recipients of the Victoria Cross, a task that took him over 36 years to complete.

Harvey was born in East Ham, then in Essex but now part of the London Borough of Newham, the son of a grocer, and worked as a salesman after he attended Hinchley Wood School in Surrey.

[1] A chance meeting with Canon William Lummis led him to take over his life-work of researching and documenting the final resting places of all Victoria Cross recipients.

The book features an introduction by Princess Alexandra and a foreword by Australian VC recipient Sir Arthur Roden Cutler.

His interest in the topic was awakened in the early 1960s when he assisted William Lummis into his researches into Victoria Cross recipients.