Name Thomas Currie Derrick No.
VC Issue No. 1252 Awards VC DCM
Regiment Australian Military Forces, 2nd/48th (South Australia) Battalion
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Berri, Murray River, Australia
Place Of Death Field hospital on Tarkan Island, Borneo
Buried/Location Ashes Labuan War Cemetery, small island in Brunei Bay, 2 miles from Victoria Township, Malaysia
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot XXIV, Row A, Grave 9
Gazetted 23 March 1944
VC Presented 7 May 1947, Covenor of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Memorials
Headstone, Labuan War Cemetery, small island in Brunei Bay, 2 miles from Victoria Township, Malaysia
P Memorial in Centennial Park Crematorium, Garden of Remembrance, Adelaide, South Australia
P VC Heroes Walk, Anzac Memorial Park, The Strand, Townsville, Q, Australia
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
VC Memorial, by War Memorial, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Memorial Plaque, Cenotaph, South West Rocks, NSW, Australia
Display at Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Derrick Street, Campbell, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Derrick Road, Elizebeth East, SA, Australia
Derrick Road, Loxwood, SA, Australia
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Adalaide RSL, SA, Australia
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Peards Complex, Borella Road, East Albury, NSW, Australia
P Named on Memorial Wall, Ingleburn RSL, Sydney, NSW, Australia
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
