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VC875 Reginald Roy Inwood
Name Reginald Roy Inwood No. 6506
VC Issue No. 875 Awards VC
Regiment Regiment, 10th (South Australia) Battalion, AIF
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Renmark, North Adelaide, Australia
Place Of Death Tara Private Hospital, St Peters, Adelaide, Australia
Buried/Location Ashes Australian Imperial Force Cemetery, West Terrace, Adelaide, Australia
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 27 October 1971
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Light Oval 5-N 1E
Gazetted 17 October 1917
VC Presented 19 December 1917, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Australian Imperial Force Cemetery, West Terrace, Adelaide, Australia
Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Roy Inwood Club, 10th Battalion's other ranks' mess, Torrens Parade Ground, Adelaide, SA, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Inwood Road, Elizebeth East, SA, Australia
By The Way…
After the war he worked for many years for the Adelaide City Council
VC Held By
City of Adelaide Museum, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide, Australia
BORN 14 July 1890
DIED 23 October 1971 AGE 30
VC Won 19-22 September 1917 AGE 27
Place VC Won Polygon Wood, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1917
Thank you to Anthony Staunton
