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VC579 Charles Calveley Foss
BORN 8 March 1885
DIED 9 April 1953 AGE 68
VC Won 12 March 1915 AGE 30
Place VC Won Neuve Chapelle, France
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Charles Calveley Foss No.
VC Issue No. 579 Awards VC CB DSO
Regiment Bedfordshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Later
Now Royal Anglian Regiment
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Brigadier
Place Of Birth The Firs, Kobe, Osaka, Japan
Place Of Death In a hospital, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Westhill Cemetery, St James Lane, Winchester, Hampshire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 15 April 1953
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Grave 2162, Square 5-8
Gazetted 23 August 1915
VC Presented 28 October 1915 by King George V north-west of the La Buissierre-Hesdigneul Road, near Hesdigneul, France
Memorials
P Headstone, Westhill Cemetery, St James Lane, Winchester, Hampshire, England
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Marlborough College, Marlborough, Wiltshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
By The Way…
Charles Foss was born in Japan, his father being the Bishop of Osaka
VC Held By
Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, Luton Museum, Wardown Park, Luton, Bedfordshire, England
