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VC1077 Harry John Laurent
David
Name Harry John Laurent No.
VC Issue No. 1077 Awards VC
Regiment New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2nd Battalion, New Zealand (Rifle) Brigade
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Tarata, Taranaki, New Zealand
Place Of Death At his sons's home, Southland Road, Hastings, New Zealand
Buried/Location Ashes Servicemen's Cemetery, Hawera, Taraniki, New Zealand
Cremated Hawera Crematorium, Taraniki, New Zealand
Date Buried/Cremated 14 December 1987
Headstone Plaque Plot/Grave no. Laurent Memorial Wall
Gazetted 15 November 1918
VC Presented 26 February 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Memorial Plaque, Hawera Cemetery, Taraniki, New Zealand
Memorial at Returned Servicemen's Association HQ, Dunedin, New Zealand
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queens Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand
Named on Commemorative Sundial, Caroline Bay, Timaru, New Zealand
Laurent Memorial Wall at Hawera Cemetery, Taraniki, New Zealand
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
Laurent Street, Hawera, Taraniki, New Zealand
Laurent Place, Greenmeadows, Napier, New Zealand
By The Way…
His Victoria Cross was one of several stolen from the National Army Museum, Waiouru, New Zealand, but they were recovered after a reward was put up for their return
VC Held By
Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum, Waiouru, New Zealand
BORN 15 April 1895
DIED 9 December 1987 AGE 92
VC Won 12 September 1918 AGE 23
Place VC Won E. Of Gouzeaucourt Wood, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
