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VC974 Gordon Muriel Flowerdew
Name Gordon Muriel Flowerdew No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 974 Awards VC
Regiment Lord Strathcona's Horse, C Squadron, CEF
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Billingford Hall, Billingford, near Scole, Norfolk, England
Place Of Death Field hospital near Moreuil, France
Buried/Location Ashes Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, 11 miles south-west of Amiens, Somme, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 1, Row H, Grave 1
Gazetted 24 April 1918
VC Presented 29 June 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his mother, Hannah
Memorials
P Headstone, Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, 11 miles south-west of Amiens, Somme, France
P Original Wooden Grave Marker & Citation, Framlingham College Chapel, Suffolk
P Named on War Memorial, St Leonard's Church, Billingford, Norfolk
By The Way…
He emigrated to Saskatchewan, Canada in 1903 and it was here he enlisted into Lord Stathcona's Horse at the outbreak of war
VC Held By
Owned by Framlingham College Loaned to Imperial War Museum Collection
BORN 2 January 1885
DIED 31 March 1918 AGE 33
VC Won 30 March 1918 AGE 33
Place VC Won Bois de Moreuil, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
