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VC1195    Arthur Stewart King Scarf

Name   Arthur Stewart King Scarf   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1195   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Royal Air Force, No. 62 Squadron

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Squadron Leader

Rank End Of Career   Squadron Leader

Place Of Birth   Wimbledon, South London, England

Place Of Death   Alor Star Hospital, Malaya, Malaysia

Buried/Location Ashes   Taiping War Cemetery (Perkuburan Peperangan Cemetery), 60 miles south-east of Penang, Malaysia

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)     Plot/Grave no.   Plot II, Row G, Grave 14

Gazetted    21 June 1946

VC Presented   30 July 1946, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

Headstone, Taiping War Cemetery (Perkuburan Peperangan Cemetery), 60 miles south-east of Penang, Malaysia

P  Named on War Memorial, Garden of Rememberance, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire

P  Named on War Memorial, St Peters Church, Claypole, Lincolnshire

P  Named on RAF VC Memorial at St Clement Dane's Church, Aldwych, London

P  Memorial Plaque, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

P  Scarf Road, Canford, Bournemouth, Dorset

P  Named on Bomber Command Memorial, Lincoln, Lincolnshire

By The Way…

VC Held By

Royal Air Force Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England

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BORN    14 June 1913

DIED   9 December 1941   AGE   29

VC Won   9 December 1941    AGE    29

Place VC Won   Over Malaya and Siam (now Malaysia)

War/Campaign   Second World War