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VC530   George Harry Wyatt

BORN   5 September 1886

DIED   22 January 1964  AGE   77

VC Won   25-26 August  1914   AGE   27

Place VC Won   Landrecies, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1914

Name   George Harry Wyatt  No.  5854

VC Issue No.   530   Awards   VC      

Regiment   Coldstream Guards, 3rd Battalion

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Lance-Corporal

Rank End Of Career   Lance-Sergeant

Place Of Birth   Britannia Road, Worcester, Worcestershire, England

Place Of Death   Sprotborough, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, England

Buried/Location Ashes   St John's Churchyard, Cadeby, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, England

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   18 November 1915

VC Presented   4 March 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, St John's Churchyard, Cadeby, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, England

P  Ephemera in St Johns Church, Cadeby, South Yorkshire

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Guildhall, High Street, Worcester, Worcestershire

By The Way…

George Wyatt was in the police force before and after the war, retiring in 1934

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