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VC1028    Ferdinand Maurice Felix West

Name   Ferdinand Maurice Felix West   No.      

VC Issue No.   1028   Awards   VC     MC   CBE

Regiment   Royal Air Force, No. 8 Squadron

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Captain

Rank End Of Career   Air Commodore

Place Of Birth   Princes Square, Paddington, London, England

Place Of Death   Princess Margaret Hospital, Windsor, Berkshire, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Holy Trinity Churchyard, Sunningdale, Berkshire, England

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   8 November 1918

VC Presented   1 March 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Holy Trinity Churchyard, Sunningdale, Berkshire, England

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

P  Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Victoria Embankment Gardens, Westminster, London

P  Information Board, Batchelors Park, Windsor, Berkshire

By The Way…

Last survivor of the First World War air VC recipients, passing away in 1988 aged 92

VC Held By

Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, Kennington, London, England

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BORN   29 January 1896

DIED   7 July 1988  AGE   92

VC Won   10 August 1918   AGE   22

Place VC Won   Over Roye, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1918