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VC659 Arthur Forbes Gordon Kilby
BORN 3 February 1885
DIED 25 September 1915 AGE 30
VC Won 25 September 1915 AGE 30
Place VC Won Near Cuinchy, France
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Arthur Forbes Gordon Kilby No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 659 Awards VC MC
Regiment South Staffordshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion, C Company
Later Staffordshire Regiment
Now 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment - disbanded, July 2012
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth East Hayes, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Place Of Death
Buried/Location Ashes Arras Road Cemetery, Roclincourt, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 19 February 1929
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot III, Row N, Grave 27
Gazetted 30 March 1916
VC Presented 11 July 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his father, Sandford James
Memorials
P Headstone, Arras Road Cemetery, Roclincourt, Pas de Calais, France
P Named on Loos Memorial to the Missing (Panel 73), Dud Corner Cemetery, Le Routoire, 2 miles north-west of Lens, Pas de Calais, France
P Marble memorialt Chapel of St Nicholas, York Minster, nth Yorkshire
P Named on War Memorial, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
P Named on War Memorial, cloister, Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire
Named on War Memorial, St Cuthberts Church, Peasholme Green, York, nth Yorkshire
P Named on Regimental Memorial, Sandhurst Memorial Chapel, Camberley, Surrey
P Named on Regimental VC Memorial, Garrison Church, Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, Staffs
Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, War Memorial, The Promenade, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
By The Way…
His body was found 14 years after he died and given a proper burial
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
