Name Frank Lester No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1117 Awards VC
Regiment Lancashire Fusiliers, 10th Battalion
Later
Now Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Corporal
Place Of Birth West View, Huyton, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Place Of Death Neuvilly, France
Buried/Location Ashes Neuvilly Communal Cemetery & Extension, Nord, 3 miles north of Le Cateau, Nord, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Row B, Grave 15
Gazetted 14 December 1918
VC Presented 22 February 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his parents, John & Ellen
Memorials
P Headstone, Neuvilly Communal Cemetery & Extension, Nord, 3 miles north of Le Cateau, Nord, France
P Named on Family Headstone, Hoylake Graveyard, Trinity Road, Hoylake, Wirral
P Named on Hoylake & West Kirby War Memorial, Hoylake, Wirral
Marble Plaque, United Reformed Church, Hoylake, Wirral
Named on War Memorial, Holy Cross Church, Woodchurch, Wirral
Memorial Plaque, St Barts Church, Thutrstaston, Wirral
P Named on War Memorial, outside St Barts Church, Thutrstaston, Wirral
Oak plaque, Evangelical Church, Hoylake, Wirral
Memorial Plaque, Methodist Church, Mill Hill Road, Irby, Wirral
P Ring of Remembrance (L'Anneau de la Mémoire), Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Pas-de-Calais, France
P Named on Boys Brigade Memorial, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Wirral Victoria Cross Memorial, Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, Wirrel
Blue Plaque, Millers Hay, Irby, Wirrel
P Named on VC Memorial Alcove, Town Hall, Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, Wirral
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, by War Memorial, Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, Wirral
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Irby, Wirral
P Lester Drive, Irby, Wirral
By The Way…
The nickname for the Lancashire Fusiliers is The Minden Boys, after the Battle of Minden in 1759, during the Seven Years War
VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.
