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VC920   Charles Edward Spackman

Name   Charles Edward Spackman   No.   9522  

VC Issue No.   920   Awards   VC    MM

Regiment   Border Regiment, 1st Battalion

Later   Kings Own Royal Borderers

Now   The Duke of Lancasters Regiment  

Rank VC Won    Sergeant

Rank End Of Career   Sergeant

Place Of Birth   Fulham, London, England

Place Of Death   Southampton General Hospital, Hampshire, England

Buried/Location Ashes   South Stoneham Crematorium, Stoneham Cemetery Road, Swaythling, Southampton, Hampshire, England

Cremated   South Stoneham Crematorium, Stoneham Cemetery Road, Swaythling, Southampton, Hampshire, England

Date Buried/Cremated   9 May 1969

Headstone   Ashes    Plot/Grave no.   Bed 25, now Section 7 in the replacement South Stoneham Garden of Rest

Gazetted   11 January 1918

VC Presented   23 February 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Carlisle Cathedral, Carlisle, Cumbria

By The Way…

In the Second World War, Charles Spackman served in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps as a Sergeant-Major

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BORN   11 January 1891

DIED   6 May 1969    AGE   78

VC Won   20 November 1917   AGE   26

Place VC Won   Marcoing, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917