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Name Philip Eric Bent No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 887 Awards VC DSO
Regiment Leicestershire Regiment, commanding 9th Battalion, D Company
Later
Now Royal Anglian Regiment
Rank VC Won Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
Rank End Of Career Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Place Of Death Polygon Wood, Belgium
Buried/Location Ashes Named on Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing, Passchendaele, 5 miles north east of Ypres, Belgium (Location unknown)
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Plot/Grave no. Panel 50
Gazetted 11 January 1918
VC Presented 2 March 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his mother, Sophy
Memorials
P Named on Tyne Cote Memorial, Belguim
P Named on War Memorial, St Albans Church, Tilford Road, Hindhead, Surrey
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
P Name on Two War Memorials, Ashby-de-la-Zouch Grammar School, Leicestershire
Named on War Memorial, Royal High School, Edingburgh, Scotland
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
Portrait and HMS Conway mementoes at the Army Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Named on Honours Board HMS Conway, Memorial Chapel, Birkenhead Priory, The Wirral
By The Way…
Although born in Nova Scotia, Philip Bent came to England as a very young child
VC Held By
Royal Leicestershire Regiment Gallery, Newarke Houses Museum, 53 The Newarke, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
BORN 3 January 1891
DIED 1 October 1917 AGE 26
VC Won 1 October 1917 AGE 26
Place VC Won Polygon Wood, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1917
