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Name James Crichton No.
VC Issue No. 1103 Awards VC
Regiment New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
Place Of Death At his home, 25 Northboro Road or Auckland Hospital, Takapuna, New Zealand
Buried/Location Ashes Waikumete Memorial Park Soldier's Cemetery, near Auckland, New Zealand
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 25 September 1961
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Protestant Section, Block L, Section 4, Plot 9
Gazetted 15 December 1918
VC Presented 26 February 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Headstone, Waikumete Memorial Park Soldier's Cemetery, near Auckland, 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 Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, outside Parliament Building, Wellington, New Zealand
Named on Memorial Sundial, Caroline Bay, Timaru, New Zealand
P Blue Plaque, Woodburn Road, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, N Ireland
Crichton Crescent, Taradale, Napier, New Zealand
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Blackridge Primary School, Blackridge, West Lothian
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, by War Memorial, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, NI
P Painting, IWM, London
P Memorial Plaque, Carrick Civic Centre, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, NI
P Wall Painting, Maple Gardens, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, NI
By The Way…
Born in Co Antrim, he emigrated to New Zealand in 1914 only to come back to Europe again via Gallipoli
VC Held By
Auckland War Memorial Museum, Domain Drive, Auckland, New Zealand
BORN 15 July 1879
DIED 22 September 1961 AGE 82
VC Won 30 September 1918 AGE 39
Place VC Won Crevecoeur, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
