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VC1144 Dudley Graham Johnson
Name Dudley Graham Johnson No.
VC Issue No. 1144 Awards VC CB DSO & Bar MC
Regiment South Wales Borderers attached to 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Later Royal Regiment of Wales
Now 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Wales Disbanded July 2012
Rank VC Won A/Lieutenant-Colonel
Rank End Of Career Major-General
Place Of Birth Rockcliffe, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England
Place Of Death At his home, 2 Heathfield Court, Fleet, Hampshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Parish Church of Crookham, Chirst Church Churchyard, Church Crookham, Hampshire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 29 December 1975
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 6 January 1919
VC Presented 14 June 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Parish Church of Crookham, Chirst Church Churchyard, Church Crookham, Hampshire, England
P Memorial at Brecon Cathedral, Powys, Wales
P Victoria Cross Honours Board, The Royal Welsh Museum,The Barracks, Brecon, Powys
P Named on Masonic VC Memorial, Freemasons Hall, Great Queen Street, London
Royal British Legion General Johnson Flatlets, Stanmore, Winchester, Hampshire
P Memorial Site of Action, Lock 1, Sambre Canal, Catillion Sur Sambre, Nord, France
P Victoria Cross Memorial Plaque, Bradfield College, Berkshire
P Named on Past Presidents Board, Secunderabad Club, Hyderabad, India
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, War Memorial, Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire
P Johnson Way, Church Cookham, Hampshire
Johnson Road, Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire
By The Way…
Served in the forces alongside 5 of his brothers
VC Held By
South Wales Borderers and Monmouthshire Regiment Museum of the Royal Regiment of Wales, The Barracks, Brecon, Powys, Wales
BORN 13 February 1884
DIED 21 December 1975 AGE 91
VC Won 4 November 1918 AGE 34
Place VC Won Sambre Canal, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
