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VC1008   Joel Halliwell

Name   Joel Halliwell   No.   9860   

VC Issue No.   1008   Awards   VC    

Regiment   Lancashire Fusiliers, 11th (Service) Battalion

Later   

Now   Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

Rank VC Won    Lance-Corporal

Rank End Of Career   Lance-Corporal

Place Of Birth   3 Parkfield, Middleton, near Manchester, Lancashire, England

Place Of Death   Oldham General Hospital, Lancashire, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Boarshaw Cemetery, Middleton, near Manchester, Lancashire, England

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   Section D, Grave 1068

Gazetted   25 July 1918

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

Memorials

P  Headstone, Boarshaw Cemetery, Middleton, near Manchester, Lancashire, England

P  Memorial Plaque,  Wall of Boarshaw Cemetery Chapel, Middleton, Gtr Manchester

Lance Corporal Joel Halliwell Way (formrley Corperation Street), Middeleton, Gtr Manchester

By The Way…

A new Headstone was erected in 2011.

VC Held By

Lancashire Fusiliers Museum, Wellington Barracks, Bury, Lancashire, England

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BORN   29 December 1881

DIED   14 June 1958  AGE   76

VC Won   27 May 1918   AGE   36

Place VC Won   Muscourt, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1918