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Name John Fox Russell No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 914 Awards VC MC
Regiment Royal Army Medical Corps attached to 1/6th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Plas Tanaltran, Holyhead, Anglessey, Gwynedd, Wales
Place Of Death Near Tel-el-Khuweilfeh, Israel (formely Palestine)
Buried/Location Ashes Beersheba War Cemetery, 25 miles south-east of Gaza (formely Palestine), Israel
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Row F, Grave 31
Gazetted 11 January 1918
VC Presented 2 March 1918, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Headstone, Beersheba War Cemetery, 25 miles south-east of Gaza (formely Palestine), Israel
Named on War Memorial, Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales
Named on Family Grave, St Seiriols Cemetery, Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales
Named on Brothers Grave, St Seiriols Cemetery, Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales
P School Memorial, Aldeburgh Church, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
War Memorial, Holyhead Secondry School, Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales
Blue Plaque, 5 Victoria Terrace, Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales
Victoria Cross Plaque, St Bees School, Cumbria
P Memorial Plaque, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
Memorial Plaque, Students Common Room, Middlesex Hospital, London
By The Way…
At the start of the war, he was in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, but left and carried on his medical studies. He transferred to the RAMC in May 1916
VC Held By
Royal Army Medical Corps Museum, Keogh Barracks, Mytchett Place Road, Ash Vale, Aldershot, Hampshire, England
BORN 27 January 1883
DIED 6 November 1917 AGE 24
VC Won 6 November 1917 AGE 24
Place VC Won Tel-el-Khuweilfeh, Palestine, now Israel
War/Campaign First World War 1917
