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VC1061    Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney

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Name   Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney    No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1061   Awards   VC   DSM   MM  

Regiment   Canadian Expeditionary Force, 38th Battalion, Eastern Ontario (Ottawa) Regiment

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Private

Place Of Birth   Hastings, East Sussex, England

Place Of Death   Casualty Clearing Station at Vis-en-Artois, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Aubigny-en-Artois, 12 miles east of St Pol sur Ternoise, Pas de Calais, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Plot 4, Row B, Grave 39

Gazetted   14 December 1918

VC Presented   No presentation

Memorials

P  Headstone, Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Aubigny-en-Artois, 12 miles east of St Pol sur Ternoise, Pas de Calais, France

Named on War Memorial, Duncan Street, Lancaster, Glengarry, Ontario, Canada

Memorial, Glengarry Municipal Building, North Lancaster, Ontario, Canada

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Claude Nunney Memorial Branch, Royal Canadian Legion, Lancaster, Ontario, Canada

P  Ring of Remembrance (L'Anneau de la Mémoire), Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Pas-de-Calais, France

P  Victoria Cross Memorial, York Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Memorial Plaque outside, Claude Nunney Memorial Branch, Royal Canadian Legion, Lancaster, Ontario, Canada

P  Victoria Cross Paving Stone, War Memorial, Alexandra Park, Hastings, East Sussex

P  Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Cross of Sacrifice, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland

P  Memorial Plaque, D939, Vis-en-Artois, Pas-de-Calais, France

P  Victoria Cross Memorial, Barrie Military Heritage Park, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada


By The Way…

Born Stephen Sargent Claude Nunney, he was sent to Canada as a young child to start a new life


VC Held By

Cornwall Armouries, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada

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BORN   14 December 1892

DIED   18 September 1918  AGE   25

VC Won   1-2 September 1918   AGE   25

Place VC Won  Virty-en-Artois, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1918

The First World War