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VC854   Charles George Bonner

Name   Charles George Bonner   No.      

VC Issue No.   854   Awards   VC   DSC

Regiment   Royal Naval Reserve

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Captain

Place Of Birth   Shuttington, Warwickshire, England

Place Of Death   At his home, Edinburgh, Scotland

Buried/Location Ashes   Old Cemetery, The Green, off Little Aston Road, near St Mary the Virgin, Aldridge Parish Church, Staffordshire, England

Cremated   Warriston Crematorium, 36 Warriston Road, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

Date Buried/Cremated   10 February 1951

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   2 November 1917

VC Presented   7 October 1917, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Old Cemetery, The Green, off Little Aston Road, near St Mary the Virgin, Aldridge Parish Church, Staffordshire, England

P  Memorial Plaque, by War Memorial, Aldridge, West Midlands

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Town Hall, Walsall, West Midlands

P  Blue Plaque, Bishop Vesseys Grammer School, Lichfield Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands

Named on Honours Board, HMS Conway Memorial Chapel, Birkenhead Priory, The Wirral

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone,  Bonner Grove, Aldridge, West Midlands

P  Bonner VC Room, Community Centre, Aldridge, West Midlands

P  Bonner Drive, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands

P  Bonner Grove, Aldridge, West Midlands

By The Way…

After the war he became a very successful Ship Salvager

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BORN   29 December 1884

DIED   7 February 1951   AGE   66

VC Won   6 August 1917   AGE   32

Place VC Won   Bay of Biscay, Atlantic Ocean, HMS 'Dunraven'

War/Campaign   First World War 1917