Regiment Special Reserve attached to 1st Battalion, A Company, Royal Welch Fusiliers
Later
Now 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh Regiment
Rank VC Won Company Sergeant-Major
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth 60 Daniel Street, Cathays, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales
Place Of Death St Ann's Nursing Home, Canford Cliffs, Poole, Dorset, England
Buried/Location Ashes Bournemouth Crematorium, Strouden Avenue, Dorset, England
Cremated Bournemouth Crematorium, Strouden Avenue, Dorset, England
Date Buried/Cremated 19 May 1953
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Rose Garden, Garden of Remembrance
Gazetted 26 June 1915
VC Presented 12 July 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Barter Road (no sign) & Barter Court, Barracks Field estate, off Kingsmill Road, Hightown, Wrexham, Clwyd, Wales
By The Way…
On 10 April 1918 his life was saved by (981) Rifleman Karanbahadur Rana VC at El Kefr, Palestine. He was later awarded the VC for his actions on that day
VC Held By
Regimental Museum of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, The Queen's Tower, Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales