Regiment Regiment 1st (New South Wales) Battalion, AIF
Later 1st Battalion Royal New South Wales Regiment
Now 1st /19th Royal New South Wales Regiment
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Lanhill Road, Paddington, London, England
Place Of Death 83 Rodney Court, Paddington, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, London, England
Cremated Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, London, England
Date Buried/Cremated 16 October 1951
Headstone Urn Plot/Grave no. Niche 5413, Hall of Memory
Gazetted 15 October 1915
VC Presented 15 January 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Urn in crematorium, Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, London
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Golders Green Crematorium, N.W. London
Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Plaque at Rockwood Cemetery, Garden of Remembrance, NSW, Australia
Keysor Place, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Named On Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, Australia
Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Embankment Gardens, Whitehall, London
By The Way…
In 1927 he re-enacted his VC action for a film ‘For Valour’, one of the bombs filled with flash powder exploded close to him and as a result he required hospital treatment for cuts and burns
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
