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VC1219    Bruce Steel Kingsbury

Name   Bruce Steel Kingsbury   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1219   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Australian Military Forces, 2/14th (Victoria) Battalion

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Private

Rank End Of Career   Private

Place Of Birth   Armadale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Place Of Death   Isurava, New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea)

Buried/Location Ashes   Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, on the south coast, Papua New Guinea

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)     Plot/Grave no.   Plot C-6, Row E, Grave 1

Gazetted    9 February 1943

VC Presented   20 November 1943, Governor-General of Australia, Lord Gowrie VC, Australia

Memorials

P  Headstone, Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, on the south coast, Papua New Guinea

Named on Roll of Honour, Area 38, Australia War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

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

Display at Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

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

Rest Area, Penrose State Forest, Marulan, NSW, Australia

Kingsbury Street, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Kingsbury Road, Loxwood, SA, Australia

By The Way…

VC Held By

Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

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BORN    8 January 1918

DIED   29 August 1942   AGE   24

VC Won   19 August 1942    AGE    24

Place VC Won   Isurava, New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea)

War/Campaign   Second World War