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VC1036 Percy Clyde Statton
Name Percy Clyde Statton No. 506
VC Issue No. 1036 Awards VC MM
Regiment Australian Imperial Force, 40th (Tasmania) Battalion
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia
Place Of Death Hobart Repatriation General Hospital, Tasmania, Australia
Buried/Location Ashes Cornelian Bay Crematorium, Hobart, Tasmania,Australia
Cremated Cornelian Bay Crematorium, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Garden of Remembrance
Gazetted 27 September 1918
VC Presented 7 June 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Memorial Plaque, Australian Imperial Force Arch No. 4, Niche F-3, Cornelian Bay Crematorium, Hobart, Tasmania
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Memorial Plaque, Lyell Highway, Ouse, TAS, Australia
Memorial Stone, Belstead Street Primary School, Zeehan, TAS, Australia
Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Cenotaph, Hobart, TAS, Australia
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Statton Street, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P VC Memorial, 119 Borella Road, Peard's Complex, East Albury, NSW, Australia
By The Way…
He returned after the war to a hero's reception in Hobart. He was less certain, however, of a welcome from his wife who had warned the 'strapping, handsome soldier' that if he went off to war she would leave him when he returned. She kept her word and he divorced her on 1 October 1920.
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
BORN 21 October 1890
DIED 5 December 1959 AGE 69
VC Won 12 August 1918 AGE 27
Place VC Won Proyart, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
