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VC812   Albert Ball

Name   Albert Ball   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   812   Awards   VC   DSO & 2 Bars   MC

Regiment   Royal Flying Corps, No. 56 Squadron & 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters

Later   Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Regiment / Royal Air Force

Now   2nd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment / Royal Air Force

Rank VC Won   Temporary Captain

Rank End Of Career   Temporary Captain

Place Of Birth   Lenton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Place Of Death   Annoeulin, near Seclin, Nord, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Annoeullin Communal Cemetery & German Extension, 6 miles north-east of Lens, Nord, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   9 May 1917

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Grave 643 (J9)

Gazetted   8 June 1917

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

Memorials

P  Headstone, Annoeullin Communal Cemetery & German Extension, 6 miles north-east of Lens, Nord, France

P  Memorial Stone at Crash Site, Annoeullin, France

P  Statue, Nottingham Castle Grounds, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

P  Named on War Memorial, Lenton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

P  Retirement Home Named after him, Lenton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

P  Named on Family Grave, Holy Trinity Churchyard, Lenton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Nottingham Castle Grounds, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

P  Named on War Memorial, On Trent Bridge, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, St Clement Danes, Aldwych, London

P  Named on War Memorial, Nottingham High School, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

P  Memorial Plaque, Nottingham High School, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Memorial and Original Grave Marker, Trent College, Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire

P  Albert Ball School, Annoeullin, France

Blue Plaque, Kings School, Grantham, Lincolnshire

P  Albert Ball Close, Top Valley, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

P  Rue De Captaine Ball, Annoeullin, France

By The Way…

His Father became Lord Mayor of Nottingham

VC Held By

Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) Museum, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

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BORN   14 August 1896

DIED   7 May 1917   AGE   20

VC Won   25 April - 6 May 1917   AGE   20

Place VC Won   Missions over France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917

VC Ephemera

Thank you to Nottingham High School, for permission to take photos of their War Memorial and Memorial Plaque