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VC850   Thomas Whitham

Name   Thomas Whitham   No.   15067   

VC Issue No.   850   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Coldstream Guards, 1st Battalion

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Private

Place Of Birth   Worsthorne, near Burnley, Lancashire, England

Place Of Death   Oldham Royal Infirmary, Lancashire, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Inghamite Burial Ground, Wheatley Lane, Wheatley Carr, near Nelson, Lancashire, England

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   27 October 1924

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   Section 10, Grave 114

Gazetted   6 September 1917

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

Memorials

P  Headstone, Inghamite Burial Ground, Wheatley Lane, Wheatley Carr, near Nelson, Lancashire, England

Portrait  Clock & Watch, Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museums, Todmorden Road, Burnley, Lancashire

By The Way…

Originally gazetted as ‘Witham’

He was serving fifty-six days field punishment No. 1, following a field general court martial for ‘disobeying a lawful command’ when his VC action took place

VC Held By

Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museums, Todmorden Road, Burnley, Lancashire, England

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BORN   11 May 1888

DIED   22 October 1924   AGE   36

VC Won   31 July 1917   AGE   29

Place VC Won   Pilckem, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1917