Rank End Of Career Acting Company Sergeant - Major
Place Of Birth 56 Albert Street, Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Place Of Death At his home, 5 Yorke Street, Southsea, Hampshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Portchester Crematorium, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Cremated Portchester Crematorium, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Date Buried/Cremated 1 September 1966
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. North Border, 20 Post (south of hydrangeas)
Gazetted 8 November 1917
VC Presented 5 December 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Entry in the Book of Remebrance, Portchester Crematorium, Upper Cornaway Lane, Portchester, Hampshire
P Memorial Plaque & Portrait, Fratton Bridge British Legion Club, Portsmouth, Hampshire
Memorial Bench, Burgoyne Gardens, Southsea, Hampshire
P Ockendon Close, Southsea, Hampshire
By The Way…
When on leave he married and then returned to the front. He was shot but the bullet was stopped by one of his wife's wedding slippers that he had in his top pocket of his tunic
VC Held By
Held by family
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BORN 10 December 1890
DIED 29 August 1966 AGE 75
VC Won 4 October 1917 AGE 26
Place VC Won ‘t Goed ter Vesten Farm, E. of Langemarck, Belgium
