Place VC Won Maktau, British East Africa, now Kenya
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Wilbur Taylor Dartnell No.POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 650 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Fusiliers, City of London Regiment, 25th (Service) Battalion
Later
Now Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Rank VC Won Temporary Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Temporary Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Fitzroy, near Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia
Place Of Death Near Maktau, Kenya
Buried/Location Ashes Voi Cemetery, Kenya, Africa
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot V, Row B or D, Grave 1 or 18
Gazetted 23 December 1915
VC Presented 7 October 1916 by Governor-General of Australia, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson at Federal Government House, Melbourne, Australia to his widow, Elizabeth Edith
Memorials
Headstone, Voi Cemetery, Kenya, Africa
P Name on war memorial in foyer at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Named on Caulfield War Memorial, Melbourne, Victoria
Dartnell Street, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Named On Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
By The Way…
Born William Thomas changed to Wilbur Taylor on 23 September 1914
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
