Name Lawrence Dominic McCarthy No. 422
VC Issue No. 1042 Awards VC
Regiment Australian Imperial Force, 16th (South & West Australia) Battalion, D Company
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth York, Australia
Place Of Death Heidelberg Repatriation General Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Buried/Location Ashes Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cremated Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date Buried/Cremated 28 May 1975
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Section C, Plot 015
Gazetted 14 December 1918
VC Presented 12 July 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Memorial Plaque, Springvale Crematorium Necropolis, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Alfred Square, St Kilda, Vic, Australia
P Memorial Plaque, School, Vermandovilliers, France
Display, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Memorial Plaque, Western Australian War Memorial, Kings Park, Perth, WA, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
McCarthy Place, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P WW1 Honours Board, Town Hall, York, WA, Australia
P RSL Building, York, WA, Australia
P Memorial Plaque, RSL Memorial Garden, York, WA, Australia
P VC Memorial, 119 Borella Road, Peard's Complex, East Albury, NSW, Australia
By The Way…
He spent a lot of his early life in orphanages in Western Australia.
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
