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VC805   Charles Pope

Name   Charles Pope   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   805   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Regiment, 11th (Western Australia) Battalion, AIF

Later   

Now   Disbanded

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant

Place Of Birth   Mile End, London, England

Place Of Death   Louveral, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Moeuvres Communal Cemetery Extension, 8 miles west of Cambrai, Nord, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Section R, Grave 718

Gazetted   8 June 1917

VC Presented   Registered post to his widow, Edith Mary, Perth, Western Australia

Memorials

P  Headstone, Moeuvres Communal Cemetery Extension, 8 miles west of Cambrai, Nord, France

Named on Roll of Honour, Panel 63, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia           

P  Memorial Plaque, Western Australian War Memorial, Kings Park, Perth, WA, Australia

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

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

Pope Street, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia

By The Way…

Born in London, he Emigrated to Canada, but returned to became a Metropolitan Policeman, before leaving for Australia in 1910

VC Held By

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

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BORN   5 March 1883

DIED   15 April 1917   AGE   34

VC Won   15 April 1917   AGE   34

Place VC Won   Louveral, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917

Thank you to Anthony Staunton