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VC527 Charles Alfred Jarvis
BORN 29 March 1881
DIED 19 November 1948 AGE 67
VC Won 23 August 1914 AGE 33
Place VC Won Jemappes, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1914
Name Charles Alfred Jarvis No. 3976
VC Issue No. 527 Awards VC
Regiment Corps of Royal Engineers, 57th Field Company
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lance-Corporal
Rank End Of Career Lance-Corporal
Place Of Birth Admiralty Buildings (now Coastguard Houses), Saultoun Place, Fraserburgh, Scotland
Place Of Death Royal Infirmary, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland
Buried/Location Ashes Cupar Cemetery, Fife, Scotland
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section G, Lair 60, Plot 176, Bowden family plot
Gazetted 16 November 1914
VC Presented 13 January 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Cupar Cemetery, Fife, Scotland
P Named on 'For Valour' board at the Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, Kent
P Jarvis Place, Carnoustie, Tayside, Scotland
P Memorial plaque on the war memorial, Carnoustie, Tayside, Scotland
Jarvis Place, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Jarvis Court, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Salton Place Gardens, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Carnoustie Golf Course Hotel, Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland
By The Way…
A memorial plaque was put up at the Carnoustie war memorial, it was unveiled by Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne, in 2013
VC Held By
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, West Midlands, England
