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VC730 William Frederick Faulds
BORN 19 February 1895
DIED 16 August 1950 AGE 55
VC Won 18 July 1916 AGE 21
Place VC Won Delville Wood, Somme, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name William Frederick Faulds No. 4073
VC Issue No. 730 Awards VC MC
Regiment South African Infantry, 1st Battalion, C Company
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth 34 Market Street, Cradock, Cape Province, South Africa
Place Of Death Salisbury General Hospital, Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe)
Buried/Location Ashes Salisbury Pioneer Cemetery, Remembrance Drive, Harare, Zimbabwe
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 17 August 1950
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 9 September 1916
VC Presented 8 January 1917 by King George V at York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England
Memorials
Headstone, Salisbury Pioneer Cemetery, Remembrance Drive, Harare, Zimbabwe
P Named On Memorial Gates, Constitution Hill, London
Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, The Castle, Zonnebloem, Cape Town, South Africa
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
By The Way…
The headstone was erected in 1972 by the Cradock branch of the South African Legion
VC Held By
South African National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg, South Africa
