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VC658   Rupert Price Hallowes

BORN   5 May 1881

DIED   1 October 1915   AGE   34

VC Won  25-30 September 1915  AGE  34

Place VC Won   North of Sanctuary Wood, Hooge, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1915

Name   Rupert Price Hallowes   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   658   Awards   VC   MC

Regiment   Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own), 4th Battalion

Later   

Now   Princess of Wales Royal Regiment

Rank VC Won   Temporary Second Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Temporary Second Lieutenant

Place Of Birth   'Checkley House', Redhill, Surrey, England

Place Of Death   Near Hooge, Belgium

Buried/Location Ashes   Bedford House Cemetery, Zillebeke, 1 mile south of Ypres, Belgium

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no.   Enclosure No. 4, Plot 14, Row B, Grave 36

Gazetted   18 November 1915

VC Presented   29 November 1916, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Bedford House Cemetery, Zillebeke, 1 mile south of Ypres, Belgium

P  Named on family grave at Brookwood Cemetery (Plot 84), Cemetery Pales, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey

P  Plaque at North East Surrey Hospital, Redhill, (now at East Surrey Hospital), Surrey

P  Memorial, entrance to out patients, neath Port Talbot Hospital, Port Talbot, neath Port Talbot, Wales

P  Gateway, Taibach Memorial Park, Port Talbot, neath Port Talbot, Wales

P  Named on war memorial, Vivian Park, Port Talbot, neath Port Talbot, Wales

P  Memorial, St Peters Church, Goytre, Port Talbot, neath Port Talbot, Wales

P  Window, St Theodore Church, Port Talbot, neath Port Talbot, Wales

P  Named on War Memorial, St Theodore's Church, Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot, Wales

P  Named on memorial, Freemasons Hall, Great Queen Street, London

Memorial at Haileybury College Chapel, Hertfordshire

Named on war memorial, choir stalls, All Saints Church, Porthcawl, Glamorgan

P  Memorial Plaque, All Saints Church, Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

P  War Memorial, Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

P  Named on War Memorial, Town Hall, Reigate, Surrey

Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Memorial Park, Redhill, Surrey

By The Way…

He was originally buried on 1 October 1915 in an isolated grave in Sanctuary Wood, Belgium

VC Held By

National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, England

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Thank You to the Rev Mark Williams for making St Theodores, Port Talbot and St Peters Goytre, available to photograph

Thank you to Wayne Stainthorpe for photos from Porthcawl