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Name Thomas Neely No.
VC Issue No. 1097 Awards VC MM
Regiment King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment, 8th Battalion, D Company, No. 15 Platoon
Later King's Own Royal Border Regiment
Now The Duke of Lancasters Regiment
Rank VC Won Corporal
Rank End Of Career Lance-Sergeant
Place Of Birth 13 Tabor Street, Poulton-cum-Seacombe, Wallasey, Cheshire, England
Place Of Death Rumilly, near Flesquieres, France
Buried/Location Ashes Masnieres British Cemetery, Marcoing, 4 miles south-west of Cambrai, Nord, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 2, Row B, Grave 21
Gazetted 14 December 1918
VC Presented 27 February 1920 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his parents, James Herbert (or Joseph Henry) & Mary Agnes
Memorials
P Headstone, Masnieres British Cemetery, Marcoing, 4 miles south-west of Cambrai, Nord, France
P Memorial Plaque, The Priory, Lancaster, Lancashire
P Named on War Memorial, Panel 63, Liverpool Town Hall, Liverpool. Merseyside
Named on War Memorial, J Bibby&Sons Ltd, Now Cargill Brocklebank Mill, Regent Road, Bootle, Merseyside
P Wirral Victoria Cross Memorial, Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, Wirrel
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, by War Memorial, Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, The Wirral
P Victoria Cross Alcove, Town Hall, Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, The Wirral
By The Way…
When he first joined up, he joined a Bantam Battalion, the Bantam Battalions took men on who were between 4ft 10 to 5ft 3, the height for a soldier being 5ft 3in tall
VC Held By
Privately held
BORN 28 March 1897
DIED 1 October 1918 AGE 21
VC Won 27 September 1918 AGE 21
Place VC Won Flesquieres, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
