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VC1038    Edward Benn Smith

Name  Edward Benn Smith   No.   51396   

VC Issue No.   1038   Awards   VC     DCM

Regiment   Lancashire Fusiliers, 1/5th  Battalion

Later   

Now   Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

Rank VC Won    Lance-Sergeant

Rank End Of Career  Lieutenant & Quartemaster

Place Of Birth   1 North Quay, Maryport, Cumbria, England

Place Of Death   Near Bucquoy, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Beuvry Communal Cemetery & Extension, 2 miles south-east of Bethune, Pas de Calais, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Plot I, Row B, Grave 7

Gazetted   22 October 1918

VC Presented   9 November 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Beuvry Communal Cemetery & Extension, 2 miles south-east of Bethune, Pas de Calais, France

P  Named on War Memorial, Maryport, Cumbria

P  Named on War Memorial, St Marys Church, Maryport, Cumbria

P  Memorial Plaque, St Marys Church, Maryport, Cumbria

P  Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Harbour South Quay, Maryport, Cumbria

By The Way…

Having survived the Great War, he died in France in January 1940 and is buried on the battlefields of France

VC Held By

Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.

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BORN   10 November 1898

DIED   12 January 1940  AGE   41

VC Won   21-23 August 1918   AGE  19

Place VC Won   Beauregard Dovecot, east of Serre, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1918