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Name Robert Spall No. 475212 POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1035 Awards VC
Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Eastern Ontario Regiment
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Ealing, Middlesex, England
Place Of Death
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 26 October 1918
VC Presented 14 November 1918 by the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, Hon C Fitzpatrick at Chateau Frontenal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada to his mother, Annie Maria
Memorials
P Named on Vimy Memorial to the Missing, 8 miles north of Arras, Pas de Calais, France
P Named on War Memorial, Bostern Manor Road, Brentford, West London
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Hounslow Civic Centre, West London
P Ring of Remembrance (L'Anneau de la Mémoire), Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Pas-de-Calais, France
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Victoria Cross Paving Stone, 16 Spencer Road, Acton, West London
P VC Obelisk, Military Heritage Park, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
P Victoria Cross Memorial, York Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
By The Way…
Princess Patricia's Light Infantry was named after Princess Patricia of Connaught, the daughter of the Governor General of Canada, granddaughter of Queen Victoria
VC Held By
Museum of the Regiments, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
BORN 5 March 1890
DIED 13 August 1918 AGE 28
VC Won 12-13 August 1918 AGE 28
Place VC Won Parvilles, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
