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VC573 Cyril Gordon Martin
BORN 19 December 1891
DIED 14 August 1980 AGE 88
VC Won 12 March 1915 AGE 23
Place VC Won Spanbroek Molen, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Cyril Gordon Martin No.
VC Issue No. 573 Awards VC CBE DSO
Regiment Corps of Royal Engineers, 56th Field Company
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Brigadier
Place Of Birth Foochow, China
Place Of Death Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Pew Tor, Devon, England
Cremated Eltham Crematorium, Rochester Way, London, England
Date Buried/Cremated 21 August 1980
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 19 April 1915
VC Presented 12 June 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Memorial plate under altar rail in Bridestowe Church, Devon
P Named on Victoria Cross honours board, Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, Kent
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
By The Way…
Reached the rank of brigadier
VC Held By
Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent, England
