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Name Alan Jerrard No.
VC Issue No. 975 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Flying Corps, No. 66 Squadron
Later
Now Royal Air Force
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Flight-Lieutenant
Place Of Birth 13 Vicars Hill, Ladywell, Lewisham, South London, England
Place Of Death Buckfield Nursing Home, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
Buried/Location Ashes Uxbridge & Hillingdon Cemetery, Hillingdon Hill, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England
Cremated Exeter & Devon Crematorium, Exeter, Devon, England
Date Buried/Cremated 17 May 1968
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section JU, Grave 5, family grave
Gazetted 1 May 1918
VC Presented 5 April 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Uxbridge & Hillingdon Cemetery, Hillingdon Hill, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England
P Named on RAF Victoria Cross Memorial, St Clement Dane's, Aldwych, London
Brass Memorial, Bishop Veseys Grammer School, Lichfield Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
P Blue Plaque, Bishop Veseys Grammer School, Lichfield Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
P Named on Memorial, Civic Centre, Lewisham, South London
P Victoria Cross Memorial, By War Memorial, High Street South, Lewisham, South London
P Jerrard Road, Tangmere, West Sussex
P Jerrard Drive, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
Jerrard Close, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
By The Way…
His Father was Headmaster of Bishop Vesey's Grammer School, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
BORN 3 December 1897
DIED 14 May 1968 AGE 70
VC Won 30 March 1918 AGE 20
Place VC Won Near Mansue, Italy
War/Campaign First World War 1918
