Name Allastair Malcolm Cluny McReady-Diamid No.POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 931 Awards VC
Regiment Middlesex Regiment, 17th (Service) Battalion, D Company
Later
Now Princess of Wales Royal Regiment
Rank VC Won Acting Captain
Rank End Of Career Acting Captain
Place Of Birth Southgate, London, England
Place Of Death Moeuvres, France
Buried/Location Ashes Named on Cambrai Memorial to the Missing, Louveral Military Cemetery, Doignies, 8 miles east of Bapaume, Nord, France (location unknown)
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
HeadstonePlot/Grave no. Panel 9
Gazetted 15 March 1918
VC Presented 20 April 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his widow, Hilda
Memorials
P Named on Cambrai Memorial to the Missing, France
P Named on War Memorial, Dursley, Gloucestershire
P Named on War Memorial, St James the Great Church, Dursley, Gloucestershire
Named on War Memorial, Victoria College, Jersey, Channel Islands
School House named after him, Victoria College, Jersey, Channel Islands
By The Way…
Born Arthur Malcolm McReady Drew, he changed his name by deed poll to Allastir Malcolm Cluny McReady-Diarmid, the Colonel of the regiment saying there were to many Drews in the the regiment and, to stop the confusion, could he change his name
VC Held By
National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, England
