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Name William McNally No.
VC Issue No. 1135 Awards VC MM
Regiment Yorkshire (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own) Regiment, 8th (Service) Battalion, B Company
Later Green Howards
Now 2nd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment. Disbanded July 2012
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth 12 Bude Square, Murton, near Seaham, Co. Durham, England
Place Of Death At his home, 12 Bude Square, Murton, Co. Durham, England
Buried/Location Ashes Tyne & Wear Crematorium, Hylton Road, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, England
Cremated Tyne & Wear Crematorium, Hylton Road, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, England
Date Buried/Cremated 9 January 1976
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Garden of Remembrance
Gazetted 14 December 1918
VC Presented 17 July 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Community Hall named in his honour in Murton, Co. Durham
P Memorial Plaque, Murton Park, Murton, Co. Durham
P Memorial Plaque, Stanley Hollis VC Statue, Linthorpe Road, Middlesborough, North Yorkshire
P McNally Place, Durham, Co Durham
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Murton Park, Murton, Co Durham
By The Way…
William McNally was a man of Murton, Co Durham, where he was born, schooled, lived, worked and died, only leaving for his war service
VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.
BORN 16 December 1894
DIED 5 January 1976 AGE 81
VC Won 27 and 29 October 1918
AGE 23
Place VC Won Piave & Varzola, Italy
War/Campaign First World War 1918
