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VC901   Albert Halton

Name   Albert Halton   No.   241475   

VC Issue No.   901   Awards   VC   

Regiment   King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment, 1st Battalion

Later   Kings Own Royal Border Regiment

Now   The Duke of Lancasters Regiment  

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Private

Place Of Birth   Warton, Carnforth, near Lancaster, Lancashire, England

Place Of Death   At his home, Westfield War Memorial Village, Lancaster, Lancashire, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Lancaster & Morecambe Crematorium, Powderhouse Lane, Lancaster, Lancashire, England

Cremated   Lancaster & Morecambe Crematorium, Powderhouse Lane, Lancaster, Lancashire, England

Date Buried/Cremated   28 July 1971

Headstone   Ashes    Plot/Grave no.   Garden of Remembrance, Glade area plot 38/6 (8 stones up, 2 stones across)

Gazetted   26 November 1917

VC Presented   1 January 1918, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Memorial Bench, & Entry in Book of Remembrance, Lancaster & Morecambe Crematorium, Powderhouse Lane, Lancaster, Lancashire

Memorial Plaque, Westfield War Memorial Village, Lancaster, Lancashire

By The Way…

For 30 years after the war, he lived at the Westfield War Memorial Village, Lancaster, for those who fought in the war

VC Held By

King's Own Regiment Museum, City Museum, Market Square, Lancaster, Lancashire, England

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BORN   1 May 1893

DIED   24 July 1971    AGE   78

VC Won   12 October 1917   AGE   24

Place VC Won   Requete Farm, Poelcapelle, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1917