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VC839   Thomas Barratt

Name   Thomas Barratt   No.   17114   POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   839   Awards   VC   

Regiment   South Staffordshire Regiment, 7th Battalion

Later   Staffordshire Regiment

Now   3rd Battalion The Mercian regiment - Disbanded July 2012

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Private

Place Of Birth   9 Foundry Street, Darkhouse, Coseley, near Dudley, West Midlands, England

Place Of Death   Near Ypres, Belgium

Buried/Location Ashes   Essex Farm Cemetery, Boesinghe, 2 miles north of Ypres, Belgium

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Plot 1, Row Z, Grave 8

Gazetted   6 September 1917

VC Presented   20 October 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his brother, James

Memorials

P  Headstone, Essex Farm Cemetery, Boesinghe, 2 miles north of Ypres, Belgium

P  Named on Coseley War Memorial, Christ Church, Church Road, Coseley, West Midlands

P  Named on Regimental Victoria Cross Memorial, Garrison Church, Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, Staffordshire

P  Memorial, Garrison Church, Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, Staffordshire

P  Memorial, (old works memorial) Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, Staffordshire

P  Memorial, Christ Church, Church Road, Coseley, West Midlands

P  Barratt Court & Memorial Plaque, Batmans Hill Road, Princes End, Coseley, West Midlands

By The Way…

He ran away from the Workhouse when he was 12 years old, and was adopted by his Grandmother

VC Held By

Museum of the Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's), Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

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BORN   5 May 1895

DIED   27 June 1917   AGE   22

VC Won   27 June 1917   AGE   22

Place VC Won   North of Ypres, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1917