Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Neame is the only person to have won an Olympic gold medal and Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military award. In December 1914 in Neuve Chapelle, France, shortly after the start of World War One, as a member of the Royal Engineers he single-handedly delayed a German enemy advance using "jam tin" hand grenades and received the Victoria Cross. Then at the 1924 Olympics in Paris he won a gold medal as a member of Britain's running deer team, a competition involving teams of four firing single shots, where a moving target simulated the animal.