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VC1065    Jack Harvey

David

Name   Jack Harvey    No.      

VC Issue No.   1065   Awards   VC     

Regiment   London Regiment (Queen's), 1/22nd (County of London) Battalion

Later   

Now   B Company, The London Regiment, Army Reserve

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Sergeant

Place Of Birth   2 Curral Grove, Old Kent Road, Peckham, London, England

Place Of Death   At his home, 76 Brook Road, Merstham, Surrey, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Redstone Cemetery, Philanthropic Road, Redhill, Surrey, England

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   Section C, Grave 2359

Gazetted   15 November 1918

VC Presented   8 March 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Redstone Cemetery, Philanthropic Road, Redhill, Surrey, England

P  Harvey Court, Merstham, Surrey

P  Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Burgess Park, Old Kent Road, Peckham, South London

By The Way…

His headstone was renovated in 1984

VC Held By

Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.

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BORN   24 August 1891

DIED   15 August 1940  AGE   48

VC Won   2 September 1918   AGE   27

Place VC Won  Near Clery, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1918