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VC1337 James Joseph Magennis
Name James Joseph Magennis No.
VC Issue No. 1337 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Navy
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Acting Leading Seaman
Rank End Of Career Acting Leading Seaman
Place Of Birth 4 Majorca Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Place Of Death Halifax Infirmary, Yorkshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Nab Wood Crematorium, Scholemoor Cemetery, Shipley, Yorkshire, England
Cremated Nab Wood Crematorium, Scholemoor Cemetery, Shipley, Yorkshire, England
Date Buried/Cremated 18 February 1986
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Garden of Remembrance
Gazetted 13 November 1945
VC Presented 11 December 1945 by King George VI at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Memorial Plaque, Bradford Cathedral, Bradford, West Yorkshire
Memorial Plaque & Painting, City Hall, Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland
P Memoria Column, City Hall, Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland
P Named on VC Memorial, Bradford, West Yokshire
P Named on Submarine Service Memorial, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Blue Plaque, Royal Naval Association Building, Belfast, Co Antrim, N Ireand
P Mural, Donegal Road, Belfast, Co Antrim, N Ireland
P Magennis Close, Gosport, Hampshire
By The Way…
He was a member of the passage crew in X7, during Operation Source on the Tirpitz
VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.
BORN 27 October 1919
DIED 12 February 1986 AGE 66
VC Won 31 July 1945 AGE 25
Place VC Won Johore Straits, Singapore
War/Campaign Second World War
