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VC529 Ernest Wright Alexander
BORN 2 October 1870
DIED 25 August 1934 AGE 63
VC Won 24 August 1914 AGE 43
Place VC Won Elouges, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1914
Name Ernest Wright Alexander No.
VC Issue No. 529 Awards VC CB CMG
Regiment Royal Field Artillery, 119th Battery
Later
Now Royal Regiment of Artillery
Rank VC Won Major
Rank End Of Career Major-General
Place Of Birth Woolton Heyes, Woolton, South Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Place Of Death Kingsbridge Hospital, Kingsbridge, Devon, England
Buried/Location Ashes Putney Vale Cemetery, Kingston Road, London, England
Cremated Putney Vale Crematorium, Kingston Road, London, England
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section B, Grave 149, family grave
Gazetted 18 February 1915
VC Presented 12 July 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Putney Vale Cemetery, Kingston Road, London, England
P Named on memorial in Royal Artillery Chapel, Woolwich, London
Name on Victoria Cross Memorial, Liverpool Town Hall, Liverpool
P Alexander Way, Putney Vale Cemetery, London
P Name on Victoria Cross Memorial, Abercromby Square, Liverpool
Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Sunburst Gates, Prices Park, Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside
P Victoria Cross and George Cross Memorial Stone, Wandsworth Town Hall, Wandsworth, South London
By The Way…
Ernest Alexander retired from the army in 1920 with the rank of Major-General
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
