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VC1149 Augustus Willington Shelton Agar
Name Augustus Willington Shelton Agar No.
VC Issue No. 1149 Awards VC DSO
Regiment Royal Navy
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Commodore
Place Of Birth Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
Place Of Death At his home, Alton, Hampshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Alton Cemetery, Hampshire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section R, Grave 238
Gazetted 17 June 1919
VC Presented 9 October 1919, King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Alton Cemetery, Hampshire, England
P Memorial in Framlingham College, Suffolk
P Motor Boat, Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire
By The Way…
He wrote 3 books about his life and the Royal Navy
VC Held By
Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, Kennington, London, England
BORN 4 January 1890
DIED 30 December 1968 AGE 78
VC Won 22 August 1919 AGE 29
Place VC Won Kronstadt Harbour, Russia
War/Campaign North Russia Relief Force