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VC642   Frederick Harold Tubb

BORN   28 November 1881

DIED   20 September 1917   AGE   35

VC Won   9 August 1915   AGE   33

Place VC Won   Lone Pine, Anzac sector, Gallipoli, Turkey

War/Campaign   First World War 1915

Name   Frederick Harold Tubb   No.      

VC Issue No.   642   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Regiment 7th (Victoria) Battalion, AIF

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Major

Place Of Birth   St Helena, Longwood, East Victoria, Australia

Place Of Death   Dressing station on the Western Front, near Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium

Buried/Location Ashes   Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, 6 miles west of Ypres, Belgium

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no.   Plot 19, Row C, Grave 5

Gazetted   15 October 1915

VC Presented   4 December 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, 6 miles west of Ypres, Belgium

Named On Roll Of Honour, Panel 52, The Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Named on Euroa War Memorial, 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 Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

Tubb Hill, Longwood, Victoria, Australia

Brass plaque, Longwood, Victoria, Australia

Tubb Place, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia


By The Way…

Being wounded in his VC action, he was mortally wounded when his stretcher was hit by British shellfire

Oak tree dedicated to his memory on 16 December 1934 by Lord Huntingfield, Governor of Victoria on Avenue of Honour, Euroa, Victoria, Australia, due to road works c. 1984 another tree was planted outside Euroa Civic Hall


VC Held By

Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

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