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VC1227    Hugh Gordon Malcolm

Name   Hugh Gordon Malcolm   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1227   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Royal Air Force, No. 18 Squadron

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Wing Commander

Rank End Of Career   Wing Commander

Place Of Birth   Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland

Place Of Death   Near Chouigui, Tunisia

Buried/Location Ashes   Beja War Cemetery, northern suburbs of town, 60 miles from Tunis, Tunisia

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)     Plot/Grave no.   Plot II, Row E, Collective Grave 6

Gazetted    27 April 1943

VC Presented   11 June 1943, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Beja War Cemetery, northern suburbs of town, 60 miles from Tunis, Tunisia

P  Named on War Memorial, St Nicholas Church, Worth, Crawley, West Sussex

P  Memorial Headstone, Glenalmond College, Perth and Kinross, Scotland

P  Named on War Memorial, Glenalmond College, Perth and Kinross, Scotland

Named on War Memorial, Craigflower School, now at Torryburn Parish Church, Torryburn, Fife

P  Named on RAF VC Memorial at St Clement Dane's Church, Aldwych, London

P  Memorial Plaque, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

P  Malcolm Road, Uxbridge, West London

P  Malcolm Road, Tangmere, West Sussex

Malcolm Road, Ipswich, Suffolk

By The Way…

VC Held By

Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.

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BORN    2 May 1917

DIED   4 December 1942   AGE    25

VC Won   17 November-4 December 1942 AGE  25

Place VC Won   over North Africa

War/Campaign   Second World War