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VC1171 Roderick Alastair Brook Learoyd
Name Roderick Alastair Brook Learoyd No.
VC Issue No. 1171 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Air Force, No. 49 Squadron
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Flight Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Wing Commander
Place Of Birth Folkestone, Kent, England
Place Of Death At his home, Rustington, Littlehampton, Sussex, England
Buried/Location Ashes Worthing Crematorium, Horsham Road, Findon, Sussex, England
Cremated Worthing Crematorium, Horsham Road, Findon, Sussex, England
Date Buried/Cremated 2 February 1996
Headstone Plot marker Plot/Grave no. Plot 35/34, Garden of Remembrance
Gazetted 20 August 1940
VC Presented 9 September 1940, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Named on RAF VC Memorial, St Clement Dane's Church, Aldwych, London
P Named on Honours Board, St Peters Church, Scampton, Lincolnshire
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial Board, Dining Hall, Wellington School, Berkshire
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Great School, Wellington College, Berkshire
Learoyd Way, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
P Learoyd Close, Canford, Bournemouth, Dorset
By The Way…
VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.
BORN 5 February 1913
DIED 24 January 1996 AGE 82
VC Won 12 August 1940 AGE 27
Place VC Won North of Munster, Germany
War/Campaign Second World War
