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VC1206 Augustus Charles Newman
Name Augustus Charles Newman No.
VC Issue No. 1206 Awards VC OBE TD
Regiment Essex Regiment attached to No. 2 Commando
Later
Now Royal Anglian Regiment
Rank VC Won Lieutenant-Colonel
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Backhurst Hill, Chigwell, Essex, England
Place Of Death Sandwich, Kent, England
Buried/Location Ashes Barham Crematorium, Kent, England
Cremated Barham Crematorium, Kent, England
Date Buried/Cremated 2 May 1972
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Garden of Remembrance (by the beech tree, lost in 1987 gales, now referred to as rear of Tulip Tree)
Gazetted 19 June 1945
VC Presented 11 December 1945 by King George VI at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Operation Chariot Memorial, Church Street Car Park, Falmouth, Cornwall
P Named on Commando Memorial, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Named on Essex Regiment Memorial, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
Memorial Plaque, Garrison Church, Warley, Essex
Memorial Plaque, Bancrofts School, Woodford Green, Essex
By The Way…
It was while as a POW in France he was spoken to by the Captain of the German ship who fought the action with 1205 Thomas Durrant, who recommended that Thomas be put forward for the highest honour
VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.
BORN 19 August 1904
DIED 26 April 1972 AGE 62
VC Won 27 March 1942 AGE 37
Place VC Won St Nazaire Harbour, France
War/Campaign Second World War
