Regiment East Surrey Regiment, 1st Battalion, A Company
Later
Now Princess of Wales Royal Regiement
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Brigadier
Place Of Birth Tipperary, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
Place Of Death Little Chartham, Shalford, near Guildford, Surrey, England
Buried/Location Ashes Guildford Crematorium, New Pond Road, Godalming, Surrey, England
Cremated Guildford Crematorium, New Pond Road, Godalming, Surrey, England
Date Buried/Cremated 7 March 1974
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Garden of Remembrance (recorded as scattered, probably between trees beyond rose beds)
Gazetted 23 June 1915
VC Presented 12 July 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Named on oak panels, All Saints Parish Church, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey
Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Cross of Sacrifice, Glasneven Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
By The Way…
During the Second World War, serving as a Brigadier, in France in 1940. He laid low for two years, in occupied territory, before he made his escape to England via Spain
