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VC1225 Rawdon Hume Middleton
Name Rawdon Hume Middleton No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1225 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Australian Air Force, attached to No. 149 Squadron, Royal Air Force
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Pilot Officer
Rank End Of Career Pilot Officer
Place Of Birth Waverley, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Place Of Death At sea 3 miles from Dymchurch, Kent, England
Buried/Location Ashes St John's Churchyard, Beck Row, Mildenhall, Suffolk, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 5 February 1943
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Service Section, Row D, Grave 1
Gazetted 15 January 1943
VC Presented 30 October 1943, Governor-General of Australia, Lord Gowrie VC, Australia
Memorials
P Headstone, St John's Churchyard, Beck Row, Mildenhall, Suffolk, England
Named on Roll of Honour, Area 127, Australia War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Roll of Honour, War Memorial School of Art, Trundle, NSW, Australia
P Named on RAF VC Memorial at St Clement Dane's Church, Aldwych, London
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Middleton Close, RAF Uxbridge, Middlesex
P Middleton Gardens,Tangmere, West Sussex
P Middleton Lawn, Innsworth, Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Middleton Way, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
P Middleton Avenue, Swanton Morley, Norfolk
Room at Air Force Club, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Middleton Court,Canberra, ACT, Australia
By The Way…
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
BORN 22 July 1916
DIED 29 November 1942 AGE 26
VC Won 28-29 November 1942 AGE 26
Place VC Won Turin, Italy
War/Campaign Second World War
