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VC1168    Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews

Name   Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews   No.     

VC Issue No.   1168   Awards   VC   

Regiment   East Lancashire Regiment

Later   Queen's Lancashire Regiment

Now   The Duke of Lancasters Regiment

Rank VC Won    Captain

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant-Colonel

Place Of Birth   Keadue, Co. Cavan, Ireland

Place Of Death   At his home Treveor Cot, Treveor, near Gorran, Cornwall, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Treveor Cot (now Arghantel), Treveor, near Gorran (in the garden of his home), Cornwall, England

Cremated   Glynn Valley Crematorium, Turfdown Road, Fletchers Bridge, Bodmin, Cornwall, England

Date Buried/Cremated   7 April 1995

Headstone   Ashes    Plot/Grave no.  

Gazetted    7 February 1946

VC Presented   6 August 1940, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

Named on War Memorial,  Stonyhurst College, Clitheroe, Lancashire

P  Named on Honours Board, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Surrey

P  Named on VC Memorial Plaque, Blackburn Cathedral, Lancashire

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VC Held By

Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery, Museum Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, England

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BORN    29 July 1911

DIED   30 March 1995   AGE   83

VC Won   30 July 1940    AGE    28

Place VC Won   Canal de Bergues, France

War/Campaign   Second World War

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