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Name Harold Ackroyd No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 851 Awards VC MC
Regiment Royal Army Medical Corps attached to 6th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Temporary Captain
Rank End Of Career Temporary Captain
Place Of Birth Mulcahen, Morley Road, Southport, Lancashire, England
Place Of Death Jargon Trench, Glencourse Wood, Ypres, Belgium
Buried/Location Ashes Birr Cross Roads Cemetery, Zillebeke, Belgium
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Special Memorial 7
Gazetted 6 September 1917
VC Presented 26 September 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his widow, Mabel and five year old son, Stephen
Memorials
P Headstone, Birr Cross Roads Cemetery, Zillebeke, Belgium
P Named on War Memorial, Royston, Hertfordshire
P Memorial Plaque, St Georges Church, Ypres, Belguim
Named on Family Grave, St Ouens Churchyard, La Ville de l'Eglise, St Ouen, Jersey
P Blue Plaque outside his home, Royston, Hertfordshire
P Named on War Memorial Arch, Guys Hospital, Southwark, South London
Memorial Plaque, Guys Hospital, Southwark, South London
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Garden of Remembrance, Southport, Lancashire
P Named on War Memorial, Southport, Lancashire
Memorial Plaque, Chapel, Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Memorial Plaque, Gonville&Caius College Chapel, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Memorial Plaque, Room C9, Caius College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
P Memorial Plaque, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Ackroyd Road, Royston, Hertfordshire
By The Way…
With the Sale of Harold Ackroyds medals, by his Family, a Medical Scholarship was set up at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Harold's old College
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
BORN 13 July 1877
DIED 11 August 1917 AGE 40
VC Won 31 July-1 August 1917 AGE 40
Place VC Won North-west of Clapham Junction, Ypres, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1917
