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VC700 Humphrey Osbaldston Brooke Firman
BORN 24 November 1886
DIED 25 April 1916 AGE 30
VC Won 24-25 April 1916 AGE 30
Place VC Won River Tigris, Magasis, near Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia now Iraq
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name Humphrey Osbaldston Brooke Firman No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 700 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Navy
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Queensbury Place, Kensington, London, England
Place Of Death River Tigris, Magasis, 8 miles south of Kut-el-Amara, Iraq
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, Iraq
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 2 February 1917
VC Presented 28 February 1917, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Named on Basra Memorial (panel 1 - 60), 40 miles north of Kuwait border, Iraq
P Named On War Memorial, New Malden, S W London
By The Way…
His first naval command was the gunboat, HMS Greenfly, a name to strike terror in any enemy
VC Held By
York Castle Museum, The Eye of York, York, Yorkshire, England
