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VC1070 George Prowse
David
Name George Prowse No.
VC Issue No. 1070 Awards VC DCM
Regiment Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Royal Naval Division, Drake Battalion
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Chief Petty Officer
Rank End Of Career Chief Petty Officer
Place Of Birth Gilfach Goch, Glamorgan, Wales
Place Of Death Cambrai Road, near Arleux, France
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, Arleux, Pas de Calais, France (where he fell as the body was not recovered)
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 30 October 1918
VC Presented 17 July 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his widow, Sarah
Memorials
P Named on Vis-en-Artois Memorial to the Missing (Panels 1), Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt, Pas de Calais, France
P Named on War Memorial, St Peters Churchyard, Camerton, Somerset
P Named on War Memorial, Mumbles Road, Swansea, West Glamogan, Wales
P Plaque at Place of Birth, 133 High Street, Gilfach Goch, Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Community Council Grounds, High Street, Gilfach Goch, Mid Glamorgan
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Barrie Military Heritage Park, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, at War Memorial, Richmond-upon-Thames, West London
By The Way…
He was the last VC to be awarded the blue Naval ribbon to his Victoria Cross
VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.
BORN 29 July 1886
DIED 27 September 1956 AGE 32
VC Won 2 September 1918 AGE 32
Place VC Won Pronville, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
