Name The Right Honourable Sir Tasker Watkins No.
VC Issue No. 1287 Awards VC GBE
Regiment Welch Regiment, 1/5th Battalion
Later Royal Regiment of Wales
Now 2nd Battalion, The Royal Welsh. Disbanded July 2012
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Major
Place Of Birth 19 Shinrig Road, Nelson, Glamorgan, Wales
Place Of Death Cardiff
Buried/Location Ashes
Cremated Thornhill Crematorium, Thornhill Road, Cardiff
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 2 November 1944
VC Presented 8 March 1945, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Statue, outside The Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales
Bust, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Regimental Chapel, Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales
Tasker Watkins House at Morfa TA Centre, Swansea, Wales
P Blue Plaque, 122 Dagenham Avenue, Dagenham, East London
P Memorial Plaque on floor, Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, Glamorgan
P Blue Plaque, St Andrews High Street, Llandaff, Cardiff, Glamorgan
P Portrait, Cardiff & County Club, Westgate Street, Cardiff, Glamorgan
P Taskers Bar, Middle Temple, City of London
P WRU Presidents Board, Principality Stadium, Westgate Street, Cardiff, Glamorgan
P Plaque, Infantry Battle School, Brecon, Powys, Wales
P Memorial Board and Taskers Corner, Glamorgan Wanderers RFC, Memorial Ground, Stirling Road, Cardiff, Glamorgan
P Tasker Road, Nelson, South Glamorgan
P Victoria Cross Roll of Honour, Union Jack Club, Waterloo, Southwark, London
By The Way…
He was to become the Deputy Chief Justice of England 1988 – 1993 then President of the Welsh Rugby Union 1993-2004
VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.
