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VC1019 Richard Charles Travis
Name Richard Charles Travis No. 9/523 POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1019 Awards VC DCM MM
Regiment 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, NZEF
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Otara, Opotiki, Southland, Auckland, New Zealand
Place Of Death Rossignol Wood, north of Hebuterne, France
Buried/Location Ashes Couin New British Cemetery, 10 miles north-west of Albert, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 1 , Row G, Grave 5
Gazetted 27 September 1918
VC Presented 1919 by the Governor-General of New Zealand, Viscount Jellicoe to Miss E L Murray
Memorials
P Headstone, Couin New British Cemetery, 10 miles north-west of Albert, Pas de Calais, France
Named on War Memorial Ryal Bush, New Zealand
Named on Panel, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
Memorial Plaque, Travis Memorial Car Park, Dunedin, New Zealand
Named on Memorial Sundial, Caroline Bay, Timaru, New Zealand
Named on Returned Servicemen's Association Headquarters, Dunedin, New Zealand
Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queens Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
Travis Street, Treadale, Napier, New Zealand
By The Way…
His real name was Dickson Cornelius Savage
VC Held By
Southland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
BORN 6 April 1884
DIED 25 July 1918 AGE 34
VC Won 25 July 1918 AGE 34
Place VC Won Near Marfaux, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
