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VC640 William John Symons
BORN 10 July 1889
DIED 24 June 1948 AGE 58
VC Won 8-9 August 1915 AGE 26
Place VC Won Lone Pine, Anzac sector, Gallipoli, Turkey
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name William John Symons No.
VC Issue No. 640 Awards VC OBE
Regiment Regiment 7th (Victoria) Battalion, AIF
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Second Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant Colonal
Place Of Birth Eaglehawk, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Place Of Death St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, London, England
Cremated Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, London, England
Date Buried/Cremated 28 June 1948
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Crocus lawn, Section 3D
Gazetted 15 October 1915
VC Presented 4 December 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Golders Green Crematorium, N.W. London
P Memorial Plaque, Victorian Garden of Remembrance, Sringvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Plaque, pegleg and sailors, Gullys Roads, Eaglehawk Town Hall, Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia
Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arbouretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Named On Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, Australia
P William J Symons honour's board Eaglehawk Primary School, Victoria, Australia
P Symons memorial, Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia
By The Way…
In 1918 he adopted the name Penn-Symons
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Thank you to Bev Hanson & Sarah Kellam for photos of Eaglehawk, Australia
