Regiment Royal Berkshire Regiment, 1st Battalion, B Company
Later Royal Gloucester Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment
Now 1st Battalion, The Rifles
Rank VC Won Lance Corporal
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Stratfield Saye, near Silchester, north of Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
Place Of Death At his home, 80 Pinehurst Park, West Moors, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Buried/Location Ashes North Cemetery, Strouden Avenue, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Cremated Bournemouth Crematorium, Strouden Avenue, Dorset, England
Date Buried/Cremated 4 July 1978
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section F9 - 18, family grave
Gazetted 27 June 1917
VC Presented 21 July 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, North Cemetery, Strouden Avenue, Bournemouth, Dorset, England
By The Way…
The nickname for the Royal Berkshire Regiment was the Biscuit Boys, named as the Barracks was near the Huntley & Palmer Biscuit Factory, suppliers of biscuits for the British Army
VC Held By
Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment Museum, The Wardrobe, 58 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
