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VC553 John Franks Vallentin
BORN 14 May 1882
DIED 7 November 1914 AGE 32
VC Won 7 November 1914 AGE 32
Place VC Won Zillebeke, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1914
Name John Franks Vallentin No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 553 Awards VC
Regiment South Staffordshire Regiment, 1st Battalion
Later The Staffordshire Regiment
Now 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment - Disbanded July 2012
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Lambeth, London England
Place Of Death Zillebeke, Belgium
Buried/Location Ashes Named on Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing, Ypres, Belgium (location unknown)
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Panel 35, Column 5
Gazetted 18 February 1915
VC Presented 16 November 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his mother, Lucy
Memorials
P Named on the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium
P Named on memorial at Garrison Church of St George, Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, Staffordshire
P Memorial plaque at St Leonard’s parish church, Hythe, Kent
P Named on Victoria Cross memorial, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
P Named on Victoria Cross oak panel, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
P Named on war memorial, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, St Mary at Lambeth Church Gardens, Lambeth, South London
P Named on War Memorial, St Mary at Lambeth Church, Lambeth Palace Road, Lambeth, South London
By The Way…
A plaque used to exist at St Mary at Lambeth Church, the church is now a garden museum next to Lambeth Palace. It’s not known were the plaque has gone
VC Held By
Wellington College, Berkshire, England
Thank you to Jill Shepherd, librarian and archivist at Wellington College
