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VC1353    Bryan James Budd

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


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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

Afghanistan War

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



VC Ephemera