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VC1318    William Basil Weston

Name   William Basil Weston    No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1318   Awards   VC    

Regiment   Green Howards attached to 1st Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment

Later   

Now   2nd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment. Disbanded July 2012

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant

Place Of Birth   Ulverston, Lancashire, England

Place Of Death   Meiktila, Burma (now Myanmar)

Buried/Location Ashes    Taukkyan War Cemetery, 20 miles north of Rangoon (now Yangon), Burma (now Myanmar)

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone    Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Plot XX, Row A, Grave 7

Gazetted    15 May 1945

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

Memorials

P  Headstone, Taukkyan War Cemetery, 20 miles north of Rangoon (now Yangon), Burma (now Myanmar)

P  Named on War Memorial, Ulverston, Cumbria

P  Named on Memorial Plaque, Coranation Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria

Memorial Plaque, St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Ulverston, Cumbria

Memorial Window, St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Ulverston, Cumbria

Named on War Memorial, Grammer School, Now Ulverston Victoria High School, Ulverston, Cumbria

Memorial Plaque at Ulverston Royal British Legion, Cumbria

P  Memorial Plaque, Stanley Hollis VC Statue, Linthorpe Road, Middlesborough, North Yorkshire

P  Weston Avenue, Ulverston, Cumbria

By The Way…

VC Held By

Green Howards Regiment Museum, Trinity Church Square, The Market Place, Richmond, North Yorkshire, England

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BORN    3 January 1924

DIED   3 March 1945   AGE    21

VC Won  3 March 1945  AGE   21

Place VC Won   Meiktila, Burma (now Myanmar)

War/Campaign   Second World War