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VC628 Joseph Harcourt Tombs
BORN 23 March 1888
DIED 28 June 1966 AGE 78
VC Won 16 June 1915 AGE 27
Place VC Won Near Rue du Bois, France
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Joseph Harcourt Tombs No. 10073
VC Issue No. 628 Awards VC
Regiment King’s (Liverpool) Regiment, 1st Battalion, B Company
Later King’s Regiment
Now The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment
Rank VC Won Lance-Corporal
Rank End Of Career Corporal
Place Of Birth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Place Of Death At his home, Second Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Buried/Location Ashes Pine Hills Cemetery, Birchmount Road, East Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 2 July 1966
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. War Veteran Section, Section K, Grave 1056
Gazetted 24 July 1915
VC Presented 12 August 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Pine Hills Cemetery, Birchmount Road, East Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Blue plaque, The Kings School, Brook Street, Grantham, Lincolnshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Walk of Heroes, Hall of Memory, Centenary Square, Birmingham, West Midlands
By The Way…
He suffered for many years after the war from his war wounds
VC Held By
