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VC788   Joergan Christian Jensen

Name   Joergan Christian Jensen   No.   2389   

VC Issue No.   788   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Regiment, 50th (South Australia) Battalion, AIF

Later   

Now   Disbanded

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Temporary Sergeant

Place Of Birth   Loegstoer, Aalborg, Denmark

Place Of Death   St Peter's, Adelaide, South Australia

Buried/Location Ashes   West Terrace Australian Imperial Force Cemetery, Adelaide, Australia

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   Light Oval Section - 4 West, Grave 3

Gazetted   8 June 1917

VC Presented   21 July 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, West Terrace Australian Imperial Force Cemetery, Adelaide, Australia

Named On Victoria Cross Memorial, By The Cenotaph, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Jensen Street, Elizabeth East, SA, Australia

Statue, Logstor, Nordjylland, Denmark

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

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

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

By The Way…

Also known as Jorgen, he became an Australian citizen in 1914

VC Held By

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

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BORN   15 January 1891

DIED   31 May 1922   AGE   31

VC Won   2 April 1917   AGE   26

Place VC Won   Noreuil, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917

VC Ephemera

Thank you to Anthony Staunton