Name George Henry Tatham Paton No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 934 Awards VC MC
Regiment Grenadier Guards, 4th Battalion commanding No. 4 Company
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Acting Captain
Rank End Of Career Acting Captain
Place Of Birth Innelllan, Argyllshire, Scotland
Place Of Death Gonnelieu, France
Buried/Location Ashes Metz-en-Couture Cemetery British Extension, 11 miles south-west of Cambrai, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot II, Row E, Grave 24
Gazetted 13 February 1918
VC Presented 2 March 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his parents, George William & Etta
Memorials
P Headstone, Metz-en-Couture Cemetery British Extension, 11 miles south-west of Cambrai, Pas de Calais, France
P Named on Family Headstone, Putney Vale Cemetery, Kingston Road, South London
Named on War Memorial, Argyl Street, Dunoon, Argyll & Bute, Scotland
Named on War Memorial, Innellan, Argyl & Bute, Scotland
Named on War Memorial, St Paul's Church, Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland
Named on War Memorial, Dunoon Grammer School, Dunoon, Argyll & Bute, Scotland
P Named on War Memorial, Little Hallingbury, Essex
P Named on War Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church, Little Hallingbury, Essex
P Named on War Memorial, St Marys Church, Bow, East London
P Named on War Memorial, Bryant & May War Memorial, Grove Hall Park, Bow, East London
Named on Bryant & May War Memorial, Royal British Legion Hall, Litherland, Liverpool, Merseyside
Named on War Memorial, St Andrews Church, Litherland, Liverpool, Merseyside
P Named on War Memorial, Clifton College, Bristol
P Named in Book of Remembrance, St Mary's Church, Bow, East London
P Named in Book of Remembrance, St Columbas Church, Pont Street, Knightsbridge, London
P Patons Path, Putney Vale Cemetery, Kingston Road, London
P Paton Close, Bow, East London
By The Way…
His Father was Chairman of Bryant and May match company, hence memorials at the site of the Factories in Bow and Litherland.
VC Held By
Grenadier Guards, Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London, England
