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VC859   Michael James O’Rourke

Name   Michael James O’Rourke   No.   428545   

VC Issue No.   859   Awards   VC   MM

Regiment   Canadian Expeditionary Force, 7th Battalion, British Columbia Regiment

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Private

Place Of Birth   Limerick, Co. Limerick, Ireland

Place Of Death   At his sister's home, 3410 Point Gray Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Buried/Location Ashes    Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Gilpin Street, North Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   10 December 1957

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   Normandy Section

Gazetted   8 November 1917

VC Presented   5 December 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

Headstone, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Gilpin Street, North Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Memorial Plaque, Chemin Des Croisettes, Loos-En-Gohelle, France

P  Memorial Bench, Outside Regimental Museum, Beatty Street, Vancouver, British Columbia

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

By The Way…

In 2014 a new Gravestone was laid in Burnaby, British Columbia

VC Held By

British Columbia Regimental Museum, Canada

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BORN   19 March 1878

DIED   6 December 1957   AGE   79

VC Won   15-17 August 1917   AGE   39

Place VC Won   Hill 60, Lens, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917