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VC1167 The Honourable Cristopher Furness
Name The Honourable Cristopher Furness No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1167 Awards VC
Regiment Welsh Guards, 1st Battalion
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth 5 Cambridge Gate, London, England
Place Of Death St. Laurent, near Arras, France
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated Glynn Valley Crematorium, Turfdown Road, Fletchers Bridge, Bodmin, Cornwall, England
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 7 February 1946
VC Presented 30 July 1946, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Named on Dunkirk Memorial (column 34), Dunkirk Town Cemetery, Dunkerque, Pas de Calais, France
P Memorial Plaque, St Cuthbert & St Oswalds Church, Winksley, North Yorkshire
P Named on War Memorial, Panel 13, House of Lords, Westminster, London
P Named on War Memorial, Eton College,Windsor, Berkshire
P Named on VC Memorial, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire
P Furness Road, Windsor, Berkshire
By The Way…
He was engaged to be married to Princess Natasha Bagration, a cousin to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, at the time of his death.
VC Held By
Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London, England
BORN 17 May 1912
DIED 24 May 1940 AGE 28
VC Won 17 - 24 May 1940 AGE 28
Place VC Won near Arras, France
War/Campaign Second World War
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