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VC844  Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson

Name   Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   844   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Northamptonshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion, B Company

Later   

Now   Royal Anglian Regiment

Rank VC Won   Acting Captain

Rank End Of Career   Acting Captain

Place Of Birth   13 Lower Berkeley Street, London, England

Place Of Death   Bellewaarde, Belgium

Buried/Location Ashes   Menin Road South Military Cemetery, 1 mile east of Ypres, Belgium

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Plot 2, Row E, Grave 1

Gazetted   6 September 1917

VC Presented   20 October 1917, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Menin Road South Military Cemetery, 1 mile east of Ypres, Belgium

P  Memorial Plaque, St Peter's Parish Church, Ightham, Kent

P  Named on War Memorial, St Peters Parish Church, Ightham, Kent

P  Named on War Memorial, Ightham, Kent

P  Named on War Memorial, Ivy Hatch Mission Church, Now at Kent Life Museum, Sandling, Kent

P  Named on War Memorial, Ifield, Kent

P  Named on War Memorial, Northfleet, Kent

P  Named on War Memorial, All Saints Church, Perry Street, Northfleet, Kent

P  Named on War Memorial, Perry Street, Northfleet, Kent

Named on War Memorial, Old Town Hall, High Street, Gravesend, Kent

P  Named on War Memorial, Clarence  Place, Gravesend, Kent

Named on War Memorial, West Linton Section, Peebles, Borders, Scotland

P  Original Grave Marker, Ightam Mote, Ightham, Kent

P  Colyer Road, Northfleet, Kent

By The Way…

Their are a number of War Memorials around Kent with Colyer-Fergussons name on it, as they had homes at Ightham and Gravesend

VC Held By

Northamptonshire Regiment, Abington Park Museum, Abington, Northampton, England

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BORN   18 February 1896

DIED   31 July 1917   AGE   21

VC Won   31 July 1917   AGE   21

Place VC Won   Bellewaarde, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1917