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VC1160    Bernard Armitage Warburton-Lee

Name   Bernard Armitage Warburton-Lee   No.     POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1160   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Royal Navy

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Captain

Rank End Of Career   Captain

Place Of Birth   Broad Oak, Redbrook, Maelor, Clywd, Wales

Place Of Death   Ofot Fjord, near Narvik, Norway

Buried/Location Ashes   Ballangen New Cemetery, 20 miles south-west of Narvik, Norway

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone  Headstone (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no.  British Section, Plot IV, Row B, Grave 9

Gazetted    7 June 1940

VC Presented   2 July 1940, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England, to his widow Elizabeth

Memorials

P  Headstone, Ballangen New Cemetery, 20 miles south-west of Narvik, Norway

Memorial, Whitewell Church, Maelor, Clwyd, Wales

P  Named on War Memorial, Iscoed, Maelor, Clwyd, Wales

P  Named on War Memorial, Lynch Gate Parish Church, Newtown, Hampshire

P  Named on War Memorial, Dartmouth & Britannia Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon

Named on Roll of Honour, MCC Lords Cricket Ground, West London

P  Warburton Gardens, Barne Burton, Plymouth, Devon

By The Way…

One of nine First World War veterans to be awarded the VC during the Second World War

VC Held By

Unknown

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BORN    13 September 1895

DIED   10 April 1940   AGE   44

VC Won   10 April 1940    AGE    44

Place VC Won   Aboard HMS 'Hardy', Ofot Fjord, near Narvik, Norway

War/Campaign   Second World War