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VC742 Gabriel George Coury
BORN 13 June 1896
DIED 23 February 1956 AGE 59
VC Won 8 August 1916 AGE 20
Place VC Won Arrowhead Copse, Guillemont, Somme, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name Gabriel George Coury No.
VC Issue No. 742 Awards VC
Regiment South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales Volunteers), 3rd Battalion attached to 1/4th Battalion
Later Queens Lancashire Regiment
Now The Duke of Lancasters Regiment
Rank VC Won Second Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth 16 Croxteth Grove, Sefton Park Road, Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Place Of Death At his home, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Buried/Location Ashes St Peter & St Paul Catholic Churchyard, 161 Liverpool Road, Crosby, Lancashire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 26 February 1956
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 26 October 1916
VC Presented 18 November 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, St Peter & St Paul Catholic Churchyard, 161 Liverpool Road, Crosby, Lancashire, England
Portrait At Stonyhurst College, Lancashire
Named On Victoria Cross Memorial, Liverpool Town Hall, Liverpool, Merseyside
P Named On Victoria Cross Memorial, Abercromby Square, Liverpool, Merseyside
By The Way…
He just started out in the cotton trade like his father before the war, returning to it at various times after the war
VC Held By
South Lancashire Regiment, Museum of The Queen's Lancashire Regiment, Fulwood Barracks, Preston, Lancashire, England
