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Name Thomas Ricketts No.
VC Issue No. 1123 Awards VC DCM
Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1st Battalion, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, B Company
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Middle Arm, White Bay, Newfoundland, Canada
Place Of Death At his pharmacy, Water Street, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Buried/Location Ashes Anglican Cemetery, Forest Road, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 13 February 1967
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 6 January 1919
VC Presented 19 January 1919 by King George V at York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Anglican Cemetery, Forest Road, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Stone memorial at his Pharmacy Store in Water Street, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
P Memorial Stone, Tree Farm, Beurtemolenstraat, off Gullegemestraat, Sint-Eloois-Winkel, Ledegem, Belgium
P Victoria Cross Memorial, York Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Painting at the Royal Candian Legion, Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada
P Church Lads and Church Girls Brigade Memorial, NMA, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Barrie Military Heritage Park, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
Tommy Ricketts Memorial Peace Park, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland
By The Way…
He enlisted in 1916, aged 15 he lied and said he was 18
VC Held By
Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
BORN 15 April 1901
DIED 10 February 1967 AGE 65
VC Won 14 October 1918 AGE 17
Place VC Won Ledeghem, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1918
