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VC536 George Thomas Dorrell
BORN 7 July 1880
DIED 7 January 1971 AGE 90
VC Won 1 September 1914 AGE 34
Place VC Won Nery, France
War/Campaign First World War 1914
Name George Thomas Dorrell No. 9382
VC Issue No. 536 Awards VC MBE
Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, 'L' Battery
Later
Now Royal Regiment of Artillery
Rank VC Won Battery Sergeant-Major
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth 23 G Street, Queen's Park Estate, Paddington, London, England
Place Of Death At his home, 30 Bray Road, Cobham, Surrey, England
Buried/Location Ashes Randalls Park Crematorium, Randalls Road, Leatherhead, Surrey, England
Cremated Randalls Park Crematorium, Leatherhead, Randalls Road, Surrey, England
Date Buried/Cremated 15 January 1971
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Plot P9 - K7
Gazetted 16 November 1914
VC Presented 13 January 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Named on memorial at Royal Artillery Chapel, Woolwich, London
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, St Mary Abbots Church, Church Street, Kensington, West London
P Victoria Cross and George Cross Memorial Stone, Wandsworth Town Hall, Wandsworth, South London
By The Way…
When he attested as a Gunner on the 2 December 1895 giving his age as 19, he was only 15 years of age
VC Held By
Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, Kennington, London, England
Thank you to Tony Goddard for some of the photos
