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VC720 Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees
BORN 31 July 1884
DIED 28 September 1955 AGE 71
VC Won 1 July 1916 AGE 31
Place VC Won Double Crassieurs, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees No.
VC Issue No. 720 Awards VC OBE MC AFC
Regiment Royal Flying Corps, No. 32 Squadron & Royal Regiment of Artillery
Later
Now Royal Air Force
Rank VC Won Temporary Major
Rank End Of Career Group Captain
Place Of Birth Plas Llanwnda, Castle Street, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
Place Of Death The Princess Margaret Hospital, Nassau, Bahamas
Buried/Location Ashes Nassau War Cemetery for United Nations Airmen, Bahamas
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 28 September 1955
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 5 August 1916
VC Presented 14 or 16 December 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Headstone, Nassau War Cemetery for United Nations Airmen, Bahamas
Memorial, Caernarfon Council Chambers, Gwynedd, Wales
Plaque, On Tower, Porth-Yr-Aur, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
Memorial, RAF College, Cranwell, Lincolnshire
P Named On Victoria Cross RAF Memorial, St Clement Dane's Church, Aldwych, London
P Named On Victoria Cross Memorial, RA Chapel, Woolwich, London
By The Way…
Between the wars, he helped pioneer Aerial Archaeology in the Middle East
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
