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VC710 Arthur Hugh Henry Batten-Pooll
BORN 25 October 1891
DIED 21 January 1971 AGE 79
VC Won 25 June 1916 AGE 24
Place VC Won Near Colonne, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name Arthur Hugh Henry Batten-Pooll No.
VC Issue No. 710 Awards VC MC
Regiment Royal Munster Fusiliers, 3rd Battalion
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Knightsbridge, London, England
Place Of Death At his home, Ugborough House, Ivybridge, Devon, England
Buried/Location Ashes St Lawerence's Parish Churchyard, Woolverton, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 27 January 1971
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 5 August 1916
VC Presented 4 November 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, St Lawerence's Parish Churchyard, Woolverton, England
P Named On Victoria Cross Memorial, Eton College, Eton, Berkshire
By The Way…
He was taken prisoner in the war and spent the last few months in prisons in Germany and Switzerland
VC Held By
National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, England
