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VC1012   Edward Mannock

Name   Edward Mannock   No.      

VC Issue No.   1011   Awards   VC    DSO & 2 Bar

Regiment   Royal Air Force, No. 85 Squadron, A Flight

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Major

Rank End Of Career   Major

Place Of Birth   Preston Cavalry Barracks, Brighton, East Sussex, England

Place Of Death   Lillers, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Location unknown, body discovered near Pacaut, possibly Mannock and buried in a grave marked 'A British Airman' at Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, Pas de Calais, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Named on the Arras Memorial to the Missing (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Plot III, Row F, Grave 12

Gazetted   18 July 1918

VC Presented   16 November 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his father, Edward

Memorials

P  Named on Arras Memorial to the Missing (bay 1), Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France

P  Named on War Memorial, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Named on War Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

P  Memorial Plaque,  South Aisle, Canterbury Cathedral, Kent

P  Plaque, 183 Mill Road, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

P  Named on War Memorial, Christchurch Gate, Canterbury, Kent

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, St Clement Dane's Church, The Aldwych, London

P  Named on For Valour Board, Royal Engineers Museum, Chatham, Kent

P  Mannock Road, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Mannock Way, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire

P  Mannock Road, Dartford, Kent

P  Mannock Road, Tangmere, West Sussex

P  Mannock Way, Woodley, Reading

Mannock Road, Wood Green, North London


By The Way…

Before the war he was a Telephone Engineer


VC Held By

Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.

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BORN   24 May 1897

DIED   26 July 1918  AGE   31

VC Won   17 June 1918   AGE   31

Place VC Won   Near Asiago, Italy

War/Campaign   First World War 1918

The First World War