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VC636   George Arthur Boyd-Rochfort

BORN   1 January 1880

DIED   7 August 1940   AGE   60

VC Won   3 August 1915   AGE   35

Place VC Won   Nr. La Bassee Canal, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1915

Name   George Arthur Boyd-Rochfort   No.      

VC Issue No.   636   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Scots Guards, Special Reserve attached to 1st Battalion

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Second Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Captain

Place Of Birth   Middleton Park, Co. Westmeath, Ireland

Place Of Death   Private nursing home, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland

Buried/Location Ashes   Castletown Church of Ireland Old Churchyard, Castletown Geoghegen, Co. Westmeath, Ireland

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   9 August 1940

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   1 September 1915

VC Presented   6 September 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle

Memorials

P  Headstone, Castletown Church of Ireland Old Churchyard, Castletown Geoghegen, Co. Westmeath, Ireland

Plaque in Castletown Church of Ireland Old Church, Castletoen Geoghegen, Co. Westmeath, Ireland

Memorial in Tyrellspass Church of Ireland Church, Co. Westmeath, Ireland

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire

By The Way…

After the war he became a well known Irish race horse breeder, and his brother becoming racehorse trainer to the Queen

VC Held By

Scots Guards, Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London, England

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Thank you to J McKevitt and G O'Connor Collection for the photo of the headstone

Thank you to J McKevitt & Ger O’Connor for photo’s of George Boyd-Rochford’s grave