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VC525 Sidney Frank Godley
BORN 14 August 1889
DIED 29 June 1957 AGE 67
VC Won 23 August 1914 AGE 25
Place VC Won Nimy Bridge, Mons Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1914
Name Sidney Frank Godley No. 13814
VC Issue No. 525 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Fusiliers, 4th Battalion, B Company
Later
Now Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth North End, East Grinstead, West Sussex, England
Place Of Death Cottage Hospital, 42 The Plain, Epping, Essex, England
Buried/Location Ashes Loughton Cemetery, Church Lane, Essex, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 5 July 1957
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Grave 3051
Gazetted 25 November 1914
VC Presented 15 February 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Loughton Cemetery, Church Lane, Essex, England
P Victoria Cross plaque at Civic Centre, Lewisham, London
P Sidney Godley VC House, Digby Estate, Tower Hamlets, London
P Blue plaque, Torrington Drive, Loughton, Essex
Memorial plaque at site of action, Nimy Bridge, Mons, Belgium
P Memorial plaque, town council offices, East Grinstead, West Sussex
Godley VC Housing Estate, Bexley, Kent
P Named on Victoria Cross mural, Lewisham shopping center, Lewisham, s.e. London
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, High Street, East Grinstead, West Sussex
By The Way…
The reverend Edward Noel Mellish VC MC (691) officiated at his wedding and also assisted at his funeral in 1957
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