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VC1052 Cecil Harold Sewell
Name Cecil Harold Sewell No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1052 Awards VC
Regiment Royal West Kent Regiment attached to 3rd (Light) Battalion, Tank Corps
Later The Queens Regiment
Now Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment / Royal Tank Regiment
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth 26 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London, England
Place Of Death Fremincourt, France
Buried/Location Ashes Vaulx Hill Cemetery, Vaulx-Vraucourt, 4 miles north-east of Bapaume, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 1, Row D, Grave 3
Gazetted 30 October 1918
VC Presented 13 December 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his parents
Memorials
P Headstone, Vaulx Hill Cemetery, Vaulx-Vraucourt, 4 miles north-east of Bapaume, Pas de Calais, France
P Named on Family Grave, Section C, Charlton Cemetery, South East London
P Named on War Memorial, Dulwich College, South London
P Named on War Memorial, John Roan School, Maze Hill, Greenwich, South London
P Medium Mark 'A' Tank A259 (Whippet) 'Caesar II', and Memorial Plaque, The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset
P Ring of Remembrance (L'Anneau de la Mémoire), Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Pas-de-Calais, France
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Crooms Hill, Greenwich, South London
Victoria Cross Paving Stone, by War Memorial, Dulwich College, South London
P Sewell Road, Bovington, Dorset
By The Way…
All 5 Brothers joined up and even head of household Harry Sewell Snr, at 55 joined up. 3 of the Sewell brothers did not survive the war including Cecil
VC Held By
Royal Armoured Corps Museum & Royal Tank Regiment Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England
BORN 27 January 1895
DIED 29 August 1918 AGE 23
VC Won 29 August 1918 AGE 23
Place VC Won Fremicourt, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
