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VC1331    Edward Colquhoun Charlton

Name   Edward Colquhoun Charlton    No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1331   Awards   VC    

Regiment   Irish Guards, 2nd Battalion

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Guardsman

Rank End Of Career   Guardsman

Place Of Birth   11 Cowen Terrace, Rowlands Gill, near Gateshead, Co. Durham, England

Place Of Death   German Prison Camp, Bremervorde, Germany

Buried/Location Ashes    Becklingen War Cemetery, Soltau, 30 miles south-west of Hamburg, Germany

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   February 1947

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)     Plot/Grave no.   Plot VII, Row F, Grave 13

Gazetted    2 May 1945

VC Presented   29 October 1946, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England to his parents, Albert & Edith

Memorials

P  Headstone, Becklingen War Cemetery, Soltau, 30 miles south-west of Hamburg, Germany

Roll of Honour, St John's Church, Ayres Road, Old Trafford, Gtr Manchester

Memorial Lectern, St John's Church, Ayres Road, Old Trafford, Gtr Manchester

P  Named in Book of Remembrance, Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, Westminster, London

Named on Manchester Abattoir Memorial, Riverpark Road, Manchester, Gtr Manchester

P  Named on Boys Brigade Memorial Garden, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

P  Memorial Plaque,  National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

Named in Stretford Memorial Book, Trafford Town Hall, Talbot Road, Stretford, Gtr Manchester

Memorial Plaque, Trafford Town Hall, Talbot Road, Stretford, Gtr Manchester

P  Edward Charlton Road, Stretford, Manchester, Gtr Manchester

P  Charlton Road, Windsor, Berkshire

By The Way…

His Victoria Cross was donated to the Regiment on 28 May 1956 at the close of the Household Brigade War Memorial dedication ceremony, presented by his mother, Edith and father Albert to Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding the Irish Guards, Colonel PFI Reid

VC Held By

Irish Guards, Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London, England

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BORN    15 June 1920

DIED   21 April 1945   AGE    24

VC Won  21 April 1945  AGE   24

Place VC Won   Wistedt, Germany

War/Campaign   Second World War