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VC950 Reginald Frederick Johnson Hayward
Name Reginald Frederick Johnson Hayward No.
VC Issue No. 950 Awards VC MC & Bar
Regiment Wiltshire Regiment, 1st Battalion
Later Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment
Now 1st Battalion, The Rifles
Rank VC Won Acting Captain
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Beersheba Mission Station, near Swartberg, East Griqualand, South Africa
Place Of Death At his home, 7 Ormonde Gate, Chelsea, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Putney Vale Crematorium, Kingston Road, London, England
Cremated Putney Vale Crematorium, Kingston Road, London, England
Date Buried/Cremated 23 January 1970
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. The Glade of Remembrance, under cherry tree opposite Panel 13
Gazetted 24 April 1918
VC Presented 24 October 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Named on War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, The Castle, Cape Town, South Africa
P Hayward Avenue, Putney Vale Cemetery, South London
P Display at the Royal British Legion, Endless Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire
P Retirement Home, Devizes, Wiltshire
By The Way…
He retired from the army in 1935, but rejoined in 1938, later becoming Commandant Prisoner of War Camps
VC Held By
Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment Museum, The Wardrobe, 58 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
BORN 17 June 1891
DIED 17 January 1970 AGE 78
VC Won 21-22 March 1918 AGE 26
Place VC Won Near Frenicourt, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
