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VC675 Sir Geoffrey Vickers
BORN 13 October 1894
DIED 16 March 1982 AGE 87
VC Won 14 October 1915 AGE 21
Place VC Won Hohenzollern Redoubt, France
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Sir Geoffrey Vickers No.
VC Issue No. 675 Awards VC
Regiment Sherwood Foresters, 1/7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, D Company
Later Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment
Now 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment
Rank VC Won Temporary Captain
Rank End Of Career Colonel
Place Of Birth Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
Place Of Death At his home, ‘The Grange’, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Oxford Crematorium, Bayswater Road, Headington, Oxfordshire, England
Cremated Oxford Crematorium, Bayswater Road, Headington, Oxfordshire, England
Date Buried/Cremated 23 March 1982
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. West of Section A1, Garden of Remembrance
Gazetted 18 November 1915
VC Presented 15 January or 4 March 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Named on VC Memorial, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
By The Way…
Chairman of the research committee and helped to found the Mental Health Research Fund, 1951 to 1967
VC Held By
Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) Museum, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
