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VC1303    John Henry Cound Brunt

Name   John Henry Cound Brunt    No.      

VC Issue No.   1303   Awards   VC   MC

Regiment   6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment

Later    

Now   Royal Anglian Regiment

Rank VC Won   Temporary Captain

Rank End Of Career   Subadar

Place Of Birth   Paddock Wood, Kent, England

Place Of Death   platoon HQ, near Faenza, Italy

Buried/Location Ashes    Faenza War Cemetery (Cimitero Di Guerra Di Faenza), 1.5 km south-east of Faenza, Italy

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone    Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Plot 3, Row A, Grave 8

Gazetted    8 February 1945

VC Presented   18 December 1945, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Faenza War Cemetery (Cimitero Di Guerra Di Faenza), 1.5 km south-east of Faenza, Italy

P  Named on  War Memorial, Paddock Wood, Kent

P  Memorial Windows, St Andrew's Church, Paddock Wood, Kent

P  War Memorial, St Andrew's Church, Paddock Wood, Kent

P  The John Brunt Pub, Paddock Wood, Kent

P  Memorial Plaque, Priest Weston, Nr Chirbury, Shropshire

P  Named on Alter Rail, Soldiers Chapel, Lincoln Cathedral, Lincolnshire

Named on War Memorial, Ellesmere College, Shropshire

Memorial Plaque, Ellesmere College, Shropshire

Named on Royal Lincolnshire Regiment Memorial, Sobraon Park, Lincoln, Lincolnshire

P  Named on Victoria Cross Grove Memorial, Donorlan Park, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent

By The Way…

VC Held By

Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, Museum of Lincolnshire Life, Old Barracks, Burton Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England

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BORN    6 December 1922

DIED   10 December 1944   AGE    22

VC Won  9 December 1944  AGE   22

Place VC Won   Near Faenza, Italy

War/Campaign   Second World War

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