Regiment 1st City of London Yeomanry commanding 5th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Later
Now 47 Signal Squadron, Army Reserve
Rank VC Won Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
Rank End Of Career Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Cavendish Square, London, England
Place Of Death Rossignol Wood, France
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 18 May 1918
VC Presented 1918 by General Officer Commanding Home Forces to his sister
Memorials
P Named on Arras Memorial to the Missing, (bay 7), Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
P Memorial Plaque, St Mary's Church, Wargrave, Berkshire
P Named on War Memorial, outside St Mary's Church, Wargrave, Berkshire
Named on School War Memorial, St Paul's School, Lonsdale Road, Barnes, South West London
P Named on Regimental Memorial, The Crypt, St Paul's Cathedral, London
P Named on Regimental Memorial, Memorial Chapel, Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey
By The Way…
A career soldier, going at 21 to Sandhurst, he took part in the Tirah Campaign and the Boxer Rebellion, until illness put him on the reserve list, he was recalled to the colours in 1914
VC Held By
Green Howards Regiment Museum, Trinity Church Square, The Market Place, Richmond, North Yorkshire, England
