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VC1220    John Alexander French

Name   John Alexander French   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1220   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Australian Military Forces, 2nd/9th (Queensland) Battalion

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Corporal

Rank End Of Career   Corporal

Place Of Birth   Crows Nest, near Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

Place Of Death   Milne Bay, New Guinea (now Papa New Guinea)

Buried/Location Ashes   Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, on the south coast, Papua New Guinea

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)     Plot/Grave no.   Plot A-2, Row E, Grave 16

Gazetted    14 January 1943

VC Presented   Governor-General of Australia, Lord Gowrie VC, Australia

Memorials

P  Headstone, Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, on the south coast, Papua New Guinea

Named on Roll of Honour, Area 33, Australia War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

French Memorial Library, Crows Nest, near Toowoomba, Q, Australia

VC Heroes Walk, The Strand, Anzac Memorial Park, Townsville, Q, Australia

Memorial Bench, Ann Street, Anzac Square, Brisbane, Q, Australia

P  Memorial Plaque at site of Action, Milne Bay, New Guinea

Memorial Plaque, Nundah Memorial Park, Nundah, Q, Australia

Memorial Bridge, Kittyhawk Drive, Chermside, Q, Australia

Display at Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia

French VC Rest Area, Hume Highway, NSW, Australia

French Street, Canberra, ACT, Australia

By The Way…

VC Held By

Unknown

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BORN    4 September 1942

DIED   29 August 1942   AGE   28

VC Won   4 September 1942    AGE    28

Place VC Won   Milne Bay, New Guinea (now Papa New Guinea)

War/Campaign   Second World War