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VC785 Frank Hubert McNamara
Name Frank Hubert McNamara No.
VC Issue No. 785 Awards VC CB CBE
Regiment Australian Flying Corps, No. 1 Squadron
Later
Now Royal Australian Air Force
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Air Vice Marshal
Place Of Birth Waranga, Rushworth, Victoria, Australia
Place Of Death At his home, Gerards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes St Josephs Catholic Churchyard, Austenwood Lane, Gerards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 8 June 1917
VC Presented 27 April 1920 by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) at Melbourne, Australia
Memorials
P Headstone, St Josephs Catholic Churchyard, Austenwood Lane, Gerards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England
P Named on RAF Victoria Cross Memorial, St Clement Dane's Church, Aldwych, London
P Memorial Plaque, Springvale, Melbourne, Australia
Memorial Plaque, War Memorial Clock, High Street, Rushworth, VIC, Australia
Named On War Memorial Clock, High Street, Rushworth, VIC, Australia
Display, Hall Of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Memorial Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
McNamara Street, Macleod, Victoria, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
By The Way…
The only Australian airman to be awarded the VC during the First World War
VC Held By
Royal Air Force Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London, England
BORN 4 April 1896
DIED 2 November 1961 AGE 65
VC Won 20 March 1917 AGE 22
Place VC Won Near Tel-el-Hesi, Egypt
War/Campaign First World War 1917
Thank you to Anthony Staunton
