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VC842   Robert James Bye

Name   Robert James Bye   No.   939   

VC Issue No.   842   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Welsh Guards, 1st Battalion, No. 2 Company

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Sergeant

Rank End Of Career   Sergeant-Major

Place Of Birth   13 Maritime Street, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales

Place Of Death   At his daughter's home, 49 Hammerwater Drive, Warsop, Nottinghamshire, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Warsop Cemetery, Church Road, Church Warsop, Nottinghamshire, England

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   28 August 1962

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   Grave 2129

Gazetted   6 September 1917

VC Presented   26 September 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Warsop Cemetery, Church Road, Church Warsop, Nottinghamshire, England

Memorial Plaque, District Council Office, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire

P  Plaque at Place of Birth, Maritime Street, Pontypridd, Glamorgan

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

By The Way…

He was the first Welsh Guardsman to win a Victoria Cross

VC Held By

Welsh Guards, Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London, England

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BORN   12 December 1889

DIED   23 August 1962   AGE   72

VC Won   28 August 1917   AGE   27

Place VC Won   Yser Canal, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1917