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VC607   Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie

BORN   23 July 1868

DIED   26 April 1915   AGE   46

VC Won    26 April 1915   AGE   46

Place VC Won   Old Fort, Seddul Bahr, Gallipoli, Turkey

War/Campaign   First World War 1915

Name   Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   607   Awards   VC   CB   CMG

Regiment   Royal Welch Fusiliers attached to the GHQ Mediterranean Expeditionary Force

Later   

Now   1st Battalion The Royal Welsh Regiment

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant-Colonel

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant-Colonel

Place Of Birth   Theburton Hall, Theburton, near Leiston, Suffolk, England

Place Of Death   Old Fort, Hill 141, Sedd-el-Bahr, Gallipoli, Turkey

Buried/Location Ashes   Where he fell in a solitary grave at Sedd-el-Bahr, Gallipoli on the crest of a hill near V Beach Cemetery, Turkey

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   26 April 1915

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   23 June 1915

VC Presented   By The King, Buckingham Palace, 8th March 1921

Memorials

P  Headstone, where he fell in a solitary grave at Sedd-el-Bahr, Gallipoli on the crest of a hill near V Beach Cemetery, Turkey

P  Named on & plaque beneath Theburton War Memorial, St Peter's Church, Theburton, Suffolk

P  Memorial window at St Peter's Church, Theburton, Suffolk

P  Brass plaque, St Giles Church, Wrexham, Clwyd

P  Doughty-Wylie Crescent, Theburton, Suffolk

P  Name on War Memorial Cloister, Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire

P  Named on War Memorial, Memorial Chapel, Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey

Named on War Memorial, J E O’Toole Centre, Holyhead, Anglessey, Wales

Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, War Memorial, Theburton, Suffolk

P  Alter Inscription, St Davids Church, Bangor Teifi, Ceredigion, Wales

By The Way…

He assumed the name Doughty-Wylie by Deed Poll after his marriage in 1904

VC Held By

Regimental Museum of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, The Queen's Tower, Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales

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Thank you to John and Judy Bartley for photos from Gallipoli

Thank you to the Hanes Emlyn History Society for Photos of St Davids, Bangor Teifi