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Name John James Dwyer No. 2060
VC Issue No. 884 Awards VC
Regiment 4th Australian Machine Gun Company, Australian Machine Gun Corps, AIF
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Lovett, Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia
Place Of Death Bruny Island, Tasmania
Buried/Location Ashes Cornelian Bay Cemetery, Cornelian Bay, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Catholic Section ND, Grave 220
Gazetted 26 November 1917
VC Presented 23 January 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Headstone, Cornelian Bay Cemetery, Cornelian Bay, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Named on Cenotaph, Hobart, Tasmania
Memorial Plaque, Alonnah School, Bruny Island, Tasmania
Dwyer Club, Tasmania Command Ordnance Depot, Tasmania, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Dwyer Street, Macleod, Victoria, Australia
By The Way…
After the war he became a very prominent and popular member of the Tasmanian Government
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT, Australia
BORN 9 March 1890
DIED 17 January 1962 AGE 71
VC Won 26 September 1917 AGE 27
Place VC Won Zonnebeke, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1917
Thank you to Anthony Staunton
