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VC1254 Alec George Horwood
Name Alec George Horwood No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1254 Awards VC DCM
Regiment Queens Royal Regiment, 1/6th Battalion attached to 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment
Later
Now Princess of Wales Royal Regiment
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Deptford, South London, England
Place Of Death Near Kyauchaw, Burma (now Myanmar)
Buried/Location Ashes No Known Grave Named on Rangoon Memorial, Burma (now Myanmar)
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 30 March 1944
VC Presented 5 December 1944, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Named on Rangoon Memorial (face 4), 20 miles north of Rangoon (now Yangon), Burma (now Myanmar)
P Named on War Memorial, Yeovil, Somerset
P Named on Shopping Centre Mural, Lewisham, South London
P Victoria Cross Memorial, By War Memorial, High Street South, Lewisham, South London
By The Way…
Captured on the retreat to Dunkirk, he and a few men escaped, trying to get home they found a rowing boat along the coast and rowed to Dunkirk, then caught one of the last boats to leave the beach
VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.
BORN 6 January 1914
DIED 20 January 1944 AGE 30
VC Won 18 January 1944 AGE 30
Place VC Won Kyauchaw, Arakan, Burma (now Myanmar)
War/Campaign Second World War
