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VC786   Percy Herbert Cherry

Name   Percy Herbert Cherry   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   786   Awards   VC   MM

Regiment   Regiment, 26th (Queensland & Tasmania) Battalion, AIF

Later   

Now   Disbanded

Rank VC Won   Captain

Rank End Of Career   Captain

Place Of Birth   Murradoc, Drysdale, Victoria, Australia

Place Of Death   Lagnicourt, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, 13 miles south-east of Arras, Pas de Calais, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no.   Plot 8I, Row C, Grave 10

Gazetted   11 May 1917

VC Presented   6 October 1917 by the Governor of Tasmania, Sir Francis Newdgate at Hobart, Australia to his father, John G

Memorials

P  Headstone, Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, 13 miles south-east of Arras, Pas de Calais, France

Named On Roll Of Honour, Panel 107, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Display, Hall Of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Memorial Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Named On Cenotaph, Hobart, Tasmania

Memorial Plaque, Primary School, Huonville, Tasmania

Cherry Street, Macleod, Victoria, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

By The Way…

As a child he worked on his fathers apple orchard

VC Held By

Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

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BORN   4 June 1895

DIED   27 March 1917   AGE   21

VC Won   26 March 1917   AGE   21

Place VC Won   Langnicourt, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917

Thank you to Anthony Staunton