War hero Joseph Tombs went to King's School, Grantham, in the early 1900s. Lance Corporal Tombs was awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous gallantry on May 16, 1915. His citation said that, on his own initiative, he crawled 100 yards under heavy shell and machine gun fire to rescue four wounded men. He was a former sailor born in Melbourne in 1888 and was around 31 and in the 1st Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment) and serving in the First World War when he showed great bravery. He rescued four men, one of whom he dragged back by means of a rifle sling placed round his neck and the man's body. He later achieved the rank of Corporal. During the Second World War World War Tombs enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and served at a flying school in Trenton, Ontario. An operation in 1952 to remove some of the shrapnel still embedded in his stomach was not completely successful. He died in 1966. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Museum of the King's Regiment in Liverpool. His grandfather was Henry Tombs, who received the VC for actions during the Indian Mutiny.