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VC1222    Percival Eric Gratwick

Name   Percival Eric Gratwick   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1222   Awards   VC   

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

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Private

Rank End Of Career   Private

Place Of Birth   Katanning, Australia

Place Of Death   Miteiriya Ridge, El Alamein, Egypt

Buried/Location Ashes   El Alamein War Cemetery, 80 miles west of Alexandria on the coast road, Egypt

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)     Plot/Grave no.   Plot XXII, Row A, Grave 6

Gazetted    28 January 1943

VC Presented   21 November 1943, Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia, Sir J Mitchell, Perth, Australia

Memorials

P  Headstone, El Alamein War Cemetery, 80 miles west of Alexandria on the coast road, Egypt

Named on Roll of Honour, Area 63, Australia War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Display at Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Memorial Plaque, Western Australian War Memorial, Kings Park, Perth, WA, Australia

Gratwick Club Room, Campbell Barracks, Swanbourne, Western Australia

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

Gratwick Street, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Gratwick Road, Loxwood, SA, Australia

By The Way…

VC Held By

Army Museum of Western Australia, Fremantle, Australia

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BORN    19 October 1902

DIED   26 October 1942   AGE   40

VC Won   25/ 26 October 1942    AGE   40

Place VC Won   Miteiriya Ridge, El Alamein, Egypt

War/Campaign   Second World War