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VC743   Noel Godfrey Chavasse

BORN   9 November 1884

DIED   4 August 1917   AGE   32

VC Won   9 August 1916   AGE   31

VC Won  31 July-2 August 1917  AGE  32

Place VC Won   Guillemont, Somme, France & Wieltje, Belgium

War/Campaign First World War 1916-17

Name   Noel Godfrey Chavasse   No.      Bar Awarded Posthumously

VC Issue No.   743   Awards   VC & BAR   MC

Regiment   Royal Army Medical Corps attached to 1/10th Battalion, King's (Liverpool Scottish) Regiment

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Captain

Rank End Of Career   Captain

Place Of Birth   The Rectory, St Peter-le-Bailey, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Place Of Death   Brandhoek Road Casualty Clearing Station No. 32, near Ypres, Belgium

Buried/Location Ashes   Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, 4 miles west of Ypres, Belgium

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no.   Plot 3, Row B, Grave 15

Gazetted   26 October 1916 & 14 September 1917

VC Presented   5 February 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England & 1917 by Lieutenant-General Sir W P Campbell to his father, Bishop Chavasse

Memorials

P  Headstone, Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, 4 miles west of Ypres, Belgium

P  Victoria Cross Memorial, Abercromby Square, Liverpool, Merseyside

Named on War Memorial, Panel 11, Liverpool Town Hall, Liverpool, Merseyside

Named on War Memorial, Liverpool Medical Institution, Mount Pleasent, Liverpool, Merseyside

Memorial Plaque, Liverpool College, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside

Named on War Memorial, Liverpool College, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside

P  Bust, St Jame's Anglican Cathedral, St Jame's Mount, Liverpool, Merseyside

Name in Book of Rememberance, St Jame's Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool, Merseyside

P  Memorial Sculpture, Chavasse Park, Liverpool, Merseyside

Named on War Memorial, Liverpool University, Victoria Hall, Brownlowhill, Liverpool, Merseyside

Named on War Memorial, Liverpool Cricket Club, Aigburth Road, Liverpool, Merseyside

Named on Liverpool Scottish War Memorial, St George's Hall, Liverpool, Merseyside

Blue Plaque, 19 Abercromby Square, Liverpool, Merseyside

Named on War Memorial, House of Lords, Westminster, London

P  Memorial, Brandhoek Church, Belguim

Blue Plaque, Magdalen College School, Cowley Place, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Named on War Memorial, Magdalen College School, Cowley Place, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Named on War Memorial, St Peter's College, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Original Grave Marker, St Peter's College, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Named on War Memorial, Trinity College, Oxford, Oxfordshire

P  Named on War Memorial, St John's Church, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

P  Named on Family Grave, St John's Churchyard, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire


By The Way…

The Second double Victoria Cross winner, and the Second Medical Doctor


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The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M

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