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VC1148 Sir Brett Cloutman
Name Sir Brett Cloutman No.
VC Issue No. 1148 Awards VC MC
Regiment Corps of Royal Engineers, 59th Field Company
Later
Now
Rank VC Won A/Major
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Marsden House, Colney Hatch Lane, Muswell Hill, North London, England
Place Of Death At his home, 2 Old Hall, South Grove, Highgate, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Norfolk Cemetery, Bercordel-Becourt, 3 miles east of Albert, Somme, France
Cremated Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, London, England
Date Buried/Cremated 17 or 18 August 1971
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Plot 1, Row A, Grave 14 (brother's grave, Lieutenant Wolfred R Cloutman, died 28 August 1915)
Gazetted 31 January 1919
VC Presented 13 February 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Ashes besides Brothers Grave, Norfolk Cemetery, Somme France
P Named on VC Memorial, Golders Green Crematorium, NW London
P Named on 'For Valour' Board, Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Central Health Centre, Hornsey, North London
By The Way…
The last Victoria Cross to be won on the Western Front during the First World War
VC Held By
Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent, England
BORN 7 November 1891
DIED 15 August 1971 AGE 79
VC Won 6 November 1918 AGE 26
Place VC Won Pont-sur-Sambre, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
