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VC1186 Sir Hughie Edwards
Name Sir Hughie Edwards No.
VC Issue No. 1186 Awards VC KCMG CB DSO OBE DFC
Regiment Royal Air Force, No. 105 Squadron
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Wing Commander
Rank End Of Career Air Commodore
Place Of Birth Masman Park, Perth, Australia
Place Of Death At his home, Darling Point, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Buried/Location Ashes Karrakatta Cemetery, Hollywood, Perth, Australia
Cremated North Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Welsh Free Church Portion, Wall AA, Niche 74 (parent's grave)
Gazetted 22 July 1941
VC Presented 17 February 1942, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Name on Parent's Grave & Memorial Plaque, Karrakatta Cemetery, Hollywood, Perth, Australia
P Named on VC RAF Memorial at St Clement Dane's Church, Aldwych, London
Plaque at North Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney, NSW, Australia
P Memorial Plaque by tree, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Memorial Plaque, Western Australian War Memorial, Kings Park, Perth, WA, Australia
Bronze Statue, Kings Square, Freemantle, WA, Australia
Edwards Close, Swanton, Norfolk
P Edwards Avenue, Tangmere, West Sussex
Edwards Road, Loxwood, SA, Australia
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Peards Complex, East Albury, NSW, Australia
P Victoria Cross Memorial Wall, Ingleburn RSL, NSW, Australia
P Memorial Plaque, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
By The Way…
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
BORN 1 August 1914
DIED 5 August 1982 AGE 68
VC Won 4 July 1941 AGE 26
Place VC Won Bremen, Germany
War/Campaign Second World War
