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Name Bryan James Budd No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1353 Awards VC
Regiment Parachute Regiment, 3rd Battalion, A Company
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Corporal
Rank End Of Career Corporal
Place Of Birth Belfast, Northern Ireland
Place Of Death Outside Sangin village, Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Buried/Location Ashes Colchester Cemetery, Essex, Yorkshire, England
Cremated Woodlands Crematorium, Brumby Wood Lane, Scunthorpe (4th September 2006)
Date Buried/Cremated 16th July 2007
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section OO, Grave 140
Gazetted 15th December 2006
VC Presented 7th March 2007 at Buckingham Palace, London England, to his widow Lorena
BORN 16th July 1977
DIED 20th August 2006 AGE 29
VC Won 27th July & 20th August 2006
AGE 29
Place VC Won Outside Sangin village, Helmand Province
War/Campaign Afghanistan
Memorials
P Headstone at Colchester Cemetery, Mersea Road, Colchester, Essex
Named in Book of Remembrance, Woodlands Crematorium, Brumby Wood Lane, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
Named on Tri-Services Memorial, Woodlands Crematorium, Brumby Wood Lane, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
Named on War Memorial, Kabre Gora Cemetery, Kabul, Sherpur District, Afghanistan
P Parachute Regiment Memorial, Aldershot Military Cemetery, Aldershot, Hampshire
P Named on Panel by War Memorial, Oswald Road, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
Memorial Plaque, at old School, now Mellor College, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
P Named on Armed Forces Memorial at National Memorial Arboretum, Croxall Road, Alrewas,
Staffordshire (Panel 219)
P Named on Afghanistan 2001 – 2014 Memorial at National Memorial Arboretum, Croxall Road, Alrewas, Staffordshire
Bryan Budd VC Territorial Army barracks, Cottage Beck Road, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
Budd Conference Room, Permanent Joint Headquarters, Northwood, Middlesex
Bryan Budd Close, off Portway Road, Rowley Regis, Sandwell, West Midlands
Painting of action by Stuart Brown commissioned by 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment
By The Way…
Sadly died before the birth of his second child.
VC Held By
Airborne Forces Museum, Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire