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VC1159 Gerard Broadmead Roope
Name Gerard Broadmead Roope No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1159 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Navy
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant-Commander
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Commander
Place Of Birth Hillbrook Trull, near Taunton, Somerset, England
Place Of Death Off West Fjord, Norway
Buried/Location Ashes At sea, lost off West Fjord, Norway
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 10 July 1945
VC Presented 12 February 1946, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England, to his widow Faith Roope and their Son
Memorials
P Named on Portsmouth Naval Memorial (panel 36, column 3), Clarence Esplanade, Southsea, Hampshire
P Named on War Memorial, Weymouth, Dorset
P Memorial Flagstone, St Petrox Church, Dartmouth, Devon
P Named on War Memorial, Dartmouth & Britannia Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon
P Named on Memorial, Royal Naval & Royal Albert Yacht Club, Pembroke Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire
P Plaque, display & HMS 'Glowworm' model at Nothe Fort, Museum of Coastal Defence, Barrack Road, Weymouth, Dorset
P Roope Close, Barne Barton, Plymouth, Devon
P Wooden Memorial Plaque, Purbeck View School, Northbrook Road, Swanage, Dorset
By The Way…
The first action of the Second World War to result in the award of a VC, although gazetted almost five years after the event due to all the survivors of HMS 'Glowworm' being taken into captivity
VC Held By
Unknown
BORN 13 March 1905
DIED 8 April 1940 AGE 35
VC Won 8 April 1940 AGE 35
Place VC Won West Fjord, Norway
War/Campaign Second World War
