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VC1039 Richard Annesley West
Name Richard Annesley West No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1039 Awards VC DCM
Regiment North Irish Horse (Cavalry Special Reserve) seconded to 6th Light (Whippets) Battalion, Tank Corps
Later
Now Royal Tank Regiment
Rank VC Won A/Lieutenant-Colonel
Rank End Of Career A/Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth 1 Oxford Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Place Of Death Vaulx Vracourt, France
Buried/Location Ashes Mory-Abbey Military Cemetery, Mory, 4 miles north of Bapaume, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 2 September 1918
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 3, Row G, Grave 4
Gazetted 30 October 1918
VC Presented 15 February 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his widow, Maude Ethel
Memorials
P Headstone, Mory-Abbey Military Cemetery, Mory, 4 miles north of Bapaume, Pas de Calais, France
P Named on Family Grave, Coolebrooke Churchyard, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
P Named on War Memorial, Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial Stone, Ennikillen Castle, Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
P Named on War Memorial, Was Hibernian United Services Club, Now National Museum, Collins Barracks, Dublin, Ireland
P Ring of Remembrance (L'Anneau de la Mémoire), Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Pas-de-Calais, France
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, The Castle, Cape Town, South Africa
P Blue Plaque on former house, Oxford Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
P Named on War Memorial, Main Street, Brookeborough, Co Fermanagh, N Ireland
P Named on Honours Board, Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, War Memorial, The Promenarde, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
P Named on North Irish Horse Memorial, Belfast City Hall, Co Antrim, N Ireland
P Named on War Memorial, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, N Ireland
Named on War Memorial, Monkton Coombe School, Somerset
By The Way…
The'Morser' 21cm Howitzer donated to Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh in his memory, was presented to the Tank Musuem, Bovington by Lord Brookeborough in 1975 and is still on display
VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.
BORN 26 September 1878
DIED 2 September 1918 AGE 39
VC Won 21 August 1918 AGE 39
Place VC Won Courcelles, near Lagnicourt, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
