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VC1004   Rowland Richard Louis Bourke

Name   Rowland Richard Louis Bourke   No.      

VC Issue No.   1004   Awards   VC    DCO

Regiment   Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant-Commander

Place Of Birth   London, England

Place Of Death   At his home, 1253 Lyall Street, Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada

Buried/Location Ashes   Royal Oak Burial Park, Falaise Drive, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   Section O, Plot 10, Grave 16

Gazetted   28 June 1918

VC Presented   11 September 1918, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

Headstone, Royal Oak Burial Park, Falaise Drive, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

By The Way…

A new Headstone was erected in May 2013

VC Held By

National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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BORN   28 November 1885

DIED   29 August 1958  AGE   72

VC Won   9-10 May 1918   AGE   32

Place VC Won   Ostend, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1918