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VC1321    Claud Raymond

Name   Claud Raymond    No.    POSTHUMOUS  

VC Issue No.   1321   Awards   VC    

Regiment   Corps of Royal Engineers

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant

Place Of Birth   Mottistone, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England

Place Of Death   Aboard a landing craft on the Thinganet Chaung River, 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 XII, Row G, Grave 9

Gazetted    28 June 1945

VC Presented   12 February 1946, 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, Barcombe, East Sussex

P  Named on War Memorial, Seaford, East Sussex

P  Named on War Memorial, St Leonards Church, Seaford, East Sussex

P  Named on 'For Valour' board at the Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, Kent

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial Board, Dining Hall, Wellington School, Berkshire

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Great School, Wellington School, Berkshire

P  Named on War Memorial, Great School, Wellington School, Berkshire

P  Named on Memorial Gates, Constitution Hill, Green Park, London

P  Raymond Close, Seaford, Sussex

P  Raymond Road, Seaford, East Sussex

By The Way…

VC Held By

Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent, England

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BORN    2 October 1923

DIED   22 March 1945   AGE    21

VC Won  21 March 1945  AGE   21

Place VC Won   Taluka Village, Burma (now Myanmar)

War/Campaign   Second World War