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BORN 24 November 1893
DIED 30 March 1917 AGE 23
VC Won 9 April 1916 AGE 22
Place VC Won Sanna-I-Yat, Mesopotamia, now Iraq
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name James Henry Fynn No. 1/11220 POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 695 Awards VC
Regiment South Wales Borderers, 4th Battalion, C Company
Later Royal Regiment of Wales
Now 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Wales - disbanded July 2012
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth St Clements Parish, Truro, Cornwall, England
Place Of Death In a field ambulance about 50 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, buried near to the field ambulance (grave marked but later lost), Iraq
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 26 September 1916
VC Presented 2 June 1917 by King George V at Hyde Park, London, England to his father, Frederick John
Memorials
Named on Basra Memorial (panel 16 & 32), 40 miles north of Kuwait border, Iraq
P Named on wooden panel & named in Roll of Honour in the Havard Chapel at Brecon Cathedral, Powys, Wales
P Named on war memorial, outside library, Bodmin, Cornwall
P Named on War Memorial, Priory Park, Bodmin, Cornwall
P Finn VC Estate, Bodmin, Cornwall (13 November 1966)
P Information Board, Finn VC Estate, Bodmin, Cornwall
P Name on Abertillery War Memorial, Abertillery, Gwent
Name on screen, St Micheals Church, Abertillery, Gwent
P Victoria Cross honours board, The Royal Welsh Museum, The Barracks, Brecon, Powys
P Named on Fathers Grave, Cross Lane, Old Bodmin Cemetery, Bodmin, Cornwall
By The Way…
When he joined the army, they spelt his name, FYNN
VC Held By
Bodmin Borough Council, Bodmin Town Hall, Cornwall, England
Thank you to David Kinnair, Bodmin Town Council for photos of James Finns Fathers grave
Thank you to David Kinnair and Hannah Stevens, Bodmin Town Council for allowing us to photograph the Victoria Cross
Thank you to Simon & Charlotte Higson for photos of Bodmin War Memorial in Priory Park
