Later Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
Now 2nd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment
Rank VC Won Acting Lieutenant Colonel
Rank End Of Career Major- General
Place Of Birth Highbury, North London, England
Place Of Death At his home, 'Four Winds', Stanhope, Bretby, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes St Wystan's Churchyard, Bretby, near Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, England
Cremated Bretby Crematorium, nr Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, England
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Family plot
Gazetted 8 May 1918
VC Presented 1 June 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Family Headstone, St Wystan's Churchyard, Bretby, near Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, England
P Named in Book of Remembrance, Bretby Crematorium, near Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire
By The Way…
A career soldier,he stayed in the army after the war, and served in Egypt, Sudan, China, Germany, India, Iraq, Northern Ireland retiring from the army in 1939
VC Held By
Worcestershire Regiment Museum, Worcester City Museum, Foregate Street, Worcester, Worcestershire, England
