Regiment Royal Flying Corps, No. 7 Squadron, A Flight
Later
Now Royal Air Force
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Benwell Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England
Place Of Death Hospital at La Panne, Belgium
Buried/Location Ashes Basingstoke Old Cemetery, Chapel Hill, Hampshire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 4 September 1915
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. RC Section E, Grave 2257-8
Gazetted 23 August 1915
VC Presented 16 November 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his father, John
Memorials
P Headstone, Basingstoke Old Cemetery, Chapel Hill, Hampshire
P Named on Sherfield-on-Loddon War Memorial, Hampshire
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, St Clement Danes, London
P Plaque, Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling, Scotland
Named On War Memorial, Stoneyhurst College, Lanchashire
P Named on war memorial, St Tarcisus RC church, Camberley, Surrey
Plaque in Scottish Naval Military Residence, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Named on war memorial, Chapel Passage, Balliol College, Oxford, Oxfordshire
P Liddell Close, Harrow, NW London
RE5 2457's propeller tip, VC citation on silver plate, copy of diary & letters in the Department of Documents at Imperial War Museum, Kennington, London
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Village Green, Sherfield-on-Lodden, Hampshire
P Named on Roll of Honour, St Lawrence Church, Sherfield-on-Lodden, Hampshire
By The Way…
He won a 1st class honours degree at Balliol College, reading zoology
