Name Lewis McGee No. 456 POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 892 Awards VC
Regiment Regiment, 40th (Tasmania) Battalion, AIF
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Acting Company Sergeant - Major
Rank End Of Career Acting Company Sergeant - Major
Place Of Birth 'Verwood', Campbelltown, Tasmania, Australia
Place Of Death Augustus Wood, Passchendaele, Belgium
Buried/Location Ashes Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, 5 miles north-east of Ypres, Belgium
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 20, Row D, Grave 1
Gazetted 26 November 1917
VC Presented 4 April 1918 by the Governor-General of Australia, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson at Launceston's York Park, Australia to his widow, Eileen Rose
Memorials
P Headstone, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, 5 miles north-east of Ypres, Belgium
Named on Roll of Honour, Panel 132, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Named on War Cenotaph, Church Street, Ross, Tasmania, Australia
Named on War Memorial, Avoca, Tasmania, Australia
Named on RSL Cenotaph, Avoca, Tasmania, Australia
Named on Honours Board, St Thomas CofE, Avoca, Tasmania, Australia
Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Memorial Plaque, Returned Servicemen's League Cenotaph, Boucher Park, Avoca, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
McGee Soldiers' Club, Anglesea Barracks, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
McGee Place, Canberra, ACT, Australia
By The Way…
He's buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, within site of were he won his Victoria Cross, 8 days before he was killed
VC Held By
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
