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VC1201 Thomas William Gould
Name Thomas William Gould No.
VC Issue No. 1201 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Navy
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Petty Officer
Rank End Of Career Petty Officer
Place Of Birth Dover, Kent, England
Place Of Death
Buried/Location Ashes Cambridgeshire, England
Cremated Peterborough Crematorium, Mowbray Road, North Bretton, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England
Date Buried/Cremated 13 December 2001
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Removed from crematorium by John Lucas (Peterborough) Limited, 31 Dogthorpe Road, Peterborough
Gazetted 9 June 1942
VC Presented March 1943 by King George VI at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Named on Submarine Service Memorial, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Gould Road, Chatham, Kent
P Gould Close, Rowner, Gosport, Hampshire
By The Way…
Only Jewish recipient to be awarded the Victoria Cross during the Second World War
VC Held By
Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen, London, England
BORN 28 December 1914
DIED 6 December 2001 AGE 86
VC Won 16 February 1942 AGE 27
Place VC Won Sea of Crete, Mediterranean
War/Campaign Second World War
