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VC1075    Samuel Needham

David

Name   Samuel Needham    No.      

VC Issue No.   1075   Awards   VC     

Regiment   Bedfordshire Regiment, 1st/ 5th Battalion

Later   

Now   Royal Anglian Regiment

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Private

Place Of Birth   Great Limber, Lincolnshire, England

Place Of Death   Palestine (now Israel)

Buried/Location Ashes   Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, East Kantara, 30 miles south of Port Said, Egypt

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Row E, Grave 181

Gazetted   30 October 1918

VC Presented   VC sent by registered post

Memorials

Headstone, Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, East Kantara, 30 miles south of Port Said, Egypt

Named on Family Grave, Scartho Road Cemetery, Grimsby, Lincolnshire

Named on War Memorial, St Jame's Church, St Jame's Square, Grimsby, Lincolnshire

Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Great Limber Church, Lincolnshire

By The Way…

He died from wounds received in action a week before the war ended

VC Held By

Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, Luton Museum, Wardown Park, Luton, Bedfordshire, England

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BORN   16 August 1885

DIED   4 November 1918  AGE   33

VC Won   10-11 September 1918   AGE  33

Place VC Won  Kefr Kasim, Palestine, now Israel

War/Campaign   First World War 1918