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VC1205    Thomas Frank Durrant

Name   Thomas Frank Durrant   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1205   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Corps of Royal Engineers attached to No. 1 Commando

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Sergeant

Rank End Of Career   Sergeant

Place Of Birth   Green Street, Farnborough, Kent, England

Place Of Death   German Military Hospital, St Nazaire, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Escoublac-la-Baule War Cemetery, near St Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)     Plot/Grave no.   Plot I, Row D, Grave 11

Gazetted    19 June 1945

VC Presented   29 October 1946, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Escoublac-la-Baule War Cemetery, near St Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France

P  Named on War Memorial, St Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France

Named on War Memorial, Orpington, Kent

P  Named on War Memorial, St Marys Church, Green Street Green, Kent

Memorial Plaque, Vine Street School, Green Street Green, Kent

P  Named on 'For Valour' Board, Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent

P  Named on Commando Memorial, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

P  Memorial Plaque, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

P  Operation Chariot Memorial, Church Street Car Park, Falmouth, Cornwall

P  Durrant Way, Green Street Green, Kent

By The Way…

Thomas Durrant is the only soldier ever to be awarded the Victoria Cross for action in a naval engagement

VC Held By

Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent, England

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BORN    17 October 1918

DIED   28 March 1942   AGE   23

VC Won   27 March 1942    AGE    23

Place VC Won   St Nazaire Harbour, France

War/Campaign   Second World War