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VC637 Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett
BORN 3 January 1892
DIED 9 January 1983 AGE 91
VC Won 8-10 August 1915 AGE 23
Place VC Won Rhododendron Spur, Chunuk Bair Ridge, Anzac Beach sector, Gallipoli, Turkey
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett No. 4/515
VC Issue No. 637 Awards VC
Regiment New Zealand Expeditionary Force, New Zealand Divisional Signal Company
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Second Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand
Place Of Death At his home, 74 Stanley Point Road, Stanley Point, Devonport, New Zealand
Buried/Location Ashes Auckland Cemetery, New Zealand
Cremated North Shore Crematorium, Albany, New Zealand
Date Buried/Cremated 12 January 1983
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Northern Division, Block A, Row C, Plot 45
Gazetted 15 October 1915
VC Presented 3 February 1916, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Memorial plaque, Auckland Cemetery, New Zealand
Look-out point named in his honour with plaque and road sign at North Shore Auckland, New Zealand
Named on sundial, Caroline Bay, Timaru, New Zealand
Bassett Place, Taradale, Napier, New Zealand
Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queens Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
By The Way…
He was the first New Zealander to be awarded the VC in the First World War
VC Held By
Auckland Institute & Museum, New Zealand
Thank you to Mike Jackson for photos of Lookout
