Regiment Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 9th Battalion attached to the Light Trench Mortar Battery
Later
Now Royal Irish Regiment
Rank VC Won Temporary Captain
Rank End Of Career Temporary Captain
Place Of Birth Alma Terrace, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Place Of Death Near Thiepval, Somme, France
Buried/Location Ashes Named on Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery, 5 miles north east of Albert, Somme, France (location unknown)
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
HeadstonePlot/Grave no. Pier 4, Face D
Gazetted 26 September 1916
VC Presented 29 November 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his father, Edward Henry
Memorials
P Named On Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
P Named On Memorial Stone at Ulster Tower, Thiepval, Somme, France
Named On War Memorial, Town Hall, Liverpool, Merseyside
Named On Victoria Cross Memorial, Town Hall, Liverpool, Merseyside
Named On Bootle War Memorial, Stanley Park, Sefton, Merseyside
Named On War Memorial, Christchurch C of E, Bootle, Merseyside
Named On War Memorial, Liverpool Institute High School, Now Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts, Mount Street, Liverpool, Merseyside
Named On War Memorial, Victoria Building, Liverpool University, Now Victoria Gallery And Museum, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside
P Named On War Memorial, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Named On Regimental Victoria Cross Memorial, St Annes Cathedral, Belfast, Northern Ireland
By The Way…
The Victoria Cross had always been in the family, until they gave it away to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Museum
VC Held By
Regimental Museum of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, The Castle, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
