James Magennis VC
NIWM Collections Officer, James O'Neill, charts the story of Leading Seaman James Magennis was the only person from Northern Ireland to be awarded the Victoria Cross during the Second World War. Raised just off the Grosvenor Road, Belfast, poverty led him to join the Royal Navy, where his actions during Operation Struggle and the attack on the IJN Takao earned Magennis Britain’s highest honour.