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VC1191    John Beeley

Name   John Beeley   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1191   Awards   VC   

Regiment   King's Royal Rifle Corps

Later   Royal Green Jackets

Now   2nd and 4th battalions, The Rifles

Rank VC Won    Rifleman

Rank End Of Career   Rifleman

Place Of Birth   9 Pendle Street, Lower Openshaw, Manchester, England

Place Of Death   Near Sidi Rezegh Airfield, Libya

Buried/Location Ashes   Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, 15 miles west of Tobruk on the Benghazi Road, Libya

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)     Plot/Grave no.  Plot X, Row E, Grave 4

Gazetted    21 April 1942

VC Presented   20 October 1942, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

Headstone, Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, 15 miles west of Tobruk on the Benghazi Road, Libya

P  John Beeley Avenue, Openshaw, Gtr Manchester


By The Way…



VC Held By

Royal Green Jackets Museum, Peninsular Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, England

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BORN    8 February 1918

DIED   21 November 1941   AGE   23

VC Won   21 November 1941    AGE    23

Place VC Won   Sidi Rezegh, Libya

War/Campaign   Second World War

Second World War