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VC648 Frederick William Owen Potts
BORN 18 December 1892
DIED 3 November 1943 AGE 50
VC Won 21 August 1915 AGE 22
Place VC Won Hill 70 (Scimitar Hill), Sulva Bay, Gallipoli, Turkey
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Frederick William Owen Potts No. 1300
VC Issue No. 648 Awards VC
Regiment 1/1st Berkshire Yeomanry, B Squadron
Later 145th (Berkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment Royal Artillery
Now 94th (Berkshire Yeomanry) Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Lance-Corporal
Place Of Birth Reading, Berkshire, England
Place Of Death Greenlands Nursing Home, Reading, Berkshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Reading Crematorium, All Hallows Road, Caversham, Berkshire, England
Cremated Reading Crematorium, All Hallows Road, Caversham, Berkshire, England
Date Buried/Cremated 5 November 1943
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Garden of Remembrance (possibly originally close to South Chapel and now moved alongside path 4)
Gazetted 1 October 1915
VC Presented 8 December 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Plaque within chapel porch at South Chapel, Reading Crematorium, All Hallows Road, Caversham, Berkshire
Memorial on wall at entrance of the old Brock Barracks, Reading, Berkshire
P Trooper Potts Way, Reading, Berkshire
Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Forbury Memorial Garden, Reading, Berkshire
By The Way…
Nicknamed by the press as, “the shovel VC”
VC Held By
Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, Kennington, London, England
Thank you to Laura Hill for the photos of Trooper Potts Way sign
