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VC1090 Cyril Hubert Frisby
Name Cyril Hubert Frisby No.
VC Issue No. 1090 Awards VC
Regiment Coldstream Guards, 1st Battalion, No. 2 Company
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Acting Captain
Rank End Of Career Acting Captain
Place Of Birth New Barnet, Hertfordshire, England
Place Of Death St Thomas's Hospital, London
Buried/Location Ashes Brookwood Cemetery, Cemetery Pales, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 14 September 1961
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. St Chad's Avenue, Plot 28, Grave 219662
Gazetted 27 November 1918
VC Presented 29 March 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Brookwood Cemetery, Cemetery Pales, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey, England
Named on Memorial on the Terrace & citation in the College Library at Haileybury College, Hertfordshire
P Named on Pew, Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, Westminster, London
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Station Road, New Barnet, North London
By The Way…
He became a leading British tunny-fisherman and in 1938 off the coast of Scarborough made a record breaking catch of one and a quarter ton, using only a rod, also a member of the Commonwealth team participating in international tunny-cup matches
VC Held By
Coldstream Guards, Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London, England
BORN 17 September 1885
DIED 10 September 1961 AGE 75
VC Won 27 September 1918 AGE 33
Place VC Won Canal du Nord, near Graincourt, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
