Victoria Cross winner, WO2 Johnson Beharry opened the National Army Cadet Force Museum in Octavia Hill’s Birthplace House, Wisbech to mark Octavia’s legacy from 1889, when she established the first Independent Army Cadet Unit.
Guests at the opening included: Brigadier Tim Seal, (Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire) Dr. Bharatkumar Narshidas Khetani (High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire), Colonel Ashley Fulford, (National Colonel Cadets at Regional Command) Brigadier Richard Lyne, (Royal Anglian Regt), The Mayor and Mayoress of Wisbech, and veterans from Wisbech Royal British Legion.
The Vice Lord Lieutenant read out a letter received from Buckingham Place acknowledging the new National Army Cadet Force Museum and Octavia’s pioneering work with the Cadets.
After the opening, WO2 Beharry gave a truly amazing talk on how he won the Victoria Cross.
