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VC1198    Charles Groves Wright Anderson

Name   Charles Groves Wright Anderson   No.      

VC Issue No.   1198   Awards   VC   MC

Regiment   Australian Military Forces, commanding 2/19th (New South Wales) Battalion

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Lieutenant-Colonel

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant-Colonel

Place Of Birth   Cape Town, South Africa

Place Of Death   Redhill, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Buried/Location Ashes   Norwood Crematorium, Mitchell, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Cremated   Norwood Crematorium, Mitchell, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Ashes     Plot/Grave no.   Wall 61, Panel A

Gazetted    13 February 1942

VC Presented   8 January 1947, Governor-General of Australia, Duke of Gloucester, Sydney, Australia

Memorials

P  Stone memorial , Norwood Crematorium, Mitchell, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Memorial Plaque, Norwood Crematorium, Mitchell, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Memorial Plaque at Rookwood Crematorium, Garden of Remembrance, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Memorial Plaque, St Pauls Church, Manuka, ACT, Australia

P  VC Heroes Walk, Anzac Memorial Park, The Strand, Townsville, Q, Australia

P  Display at Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia

P  Anderson Park, Lovell Street, Young, NSW, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Memorial, Peards Complex, East Albury, NSW, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Memorial Wall, Ingleburn RSL, NSW, Australia

By The Way…

VC Held By

National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, England

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BORN    12 February 1897

DIED   11 November 1988   AGE   91

VC Won   18-22 January 1942    AGE    44

Place VC Won   Battle of Muar River, Malaya (now Malaysia)

War/Campaign   Second World War