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VC656 George Allen Maling
BORN 6 October 1888
DIED 9 July 1929 AGE 40
VC Won 25 September 1915 AGE 26
Place VC Won Pietre, Fauquissant, France
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name George Allen Maling No.
VC Issue No. 656 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Army Medical Corps attached to 12th Battalion, Rifle Brigade
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Temporary Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Carlton House, Mowbray Road, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, England
Place Of Death Lee, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Chiselhurst Cemetery (Town Cemetery), Beaverwood Road, Chiselhurst, Kent, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 12 July 1929
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section A, Grave 2017
Gazetted 18 November 1915
VC Presented 15 January 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Chiselhurst Cemetery (Town Cemetery), Beaverwood Road, Chiselhurst, Kent, England
P Plaque at National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffs
P Named on Uppingham School Memorial at St George's Church, Ypres, Belgium
Name on parents headstone, Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear
Blue Plaque, Carlton House, Mowbray Road, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear
Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Cenotaph, Burdon Road, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear
By The Way…
He was the son of a doctor, and after the war worked in a children’s hospital then in a medical partnership until his death
VC Held By
Royal Army Medical Corps Museum, Keogh Barracks, Mytchett Place Road, Ash Vale, Aldershot, Hampshire, England
