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VC1037 Daniel Marcus William Beak
Name Daniel Marcus William Beak No.
VC Issue No. 1037 Awards VC DSO MC & Bar
Regiment Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, 63rd Royal Naval Division, Drake Battalion
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Temporary Commander
Rank End Of Career Major-General
Place Of Birth 42 Kent Road, St Denys, Southampton, Hampshire, England
Place Of Death Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Brookwood Cemetery, Cemetery Pales, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 9 May 1967
Headstone Unmarked Grave Plot/Grave no. St Gabriel's Avenue, Grave 222960
Gazetted 15 November 1918
VC Presented 6 December 1918 by King George V at Vincent Barracks, Valenciennes, France
Memorials
P Named on Wife's Memorial, Ayr Cemetery, Holmston Road, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland
P Memorial Plaque, War Memorial, The Promanard, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
By The Way…
During World War 2, he was General Officer Commanding Troops in Malta
VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.
BORN 27 July 1891
DIED 3 May 1967 AGE 75
VC Won 21, 25 August and 4 September 1918 AGE 27
Place VC Won Logeast Wood, south of Bapaume, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
