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Name | George Harold, EARDLEY |
Cyril Edward, GOURLEY |
Thomas Egerton, HALE |
Alfred Ernest, IND |
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Rank | Company Sergeant Major | Captain | Lieutenant Colonel | Farrier Sergeant |
Force | 4th Bn, King's Shropshire Light Infantry | 276th ( West Lancashire ) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery |
7th Regiment ( Royal Fusiliers ) |
Royal Horse Artillery |
VC won | Overloon, The Netherlands, 16 October 1944 |
Epehy, France, 30 November 1917 |
Sebastopol, Crimea, 8 September 1855 |
Orange River, 2nd Boer War, 20 December 1901 |
London Gaz | 2 January 1945 | 13 February 1918 | 5 May 1857 | 15 August 1902 |
Born | Congleton, 6 May 1912 |
Liverpool, 19 January 1893 |
Nantwich, 24 September 1832 |
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, 16 September 1872 |
Died | 11 September 1991, Congleton |
31 January 1982, Haslemere, Surrey |
25 December 1909, Acton |
29 November 1916, Eccleston |
Grave | Macclesfield Crematorium | Grange Cemetery, West Kirby | St Mary's Churchyard, Acton ( image courtesy Victoria Cross Trust ) |
St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Eccleston ( image courtesy Victoria Cross Trust ) |
Location of VC |
Lord Ashcroft Gallery Imperial War Museum, London |
Royal Artillery Museum ( A new museum is planned on Salisbury Plain ) |
Museum of Military Medicine, Mytchett | Not publicly held |
Remarks | MM | MM | CB | None |
CHESHIRE
Name
Thomas Alfred,
JONESJohn,
O'NEILLRank
Private
Lieutenant
Force
1st Bn, Cheshire Regiment
2nd Bn, Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment
VC won
Morval, Somme, France,
25 September 1916Moorseele, Belgium,
14 October 1918London Gaz
26 October 1916
26 December 1918
Born
Runcorn,
25 December 1880Airdrie, Lanarkshire,
27 January 1897Died
30 January 1956,
Runcorn16 October 1942,
HoylakeGrave
Runcorn Cemetery
Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hoylake
Location
of VCCheshire Regiment Museum, Chester
Not publicly held
Remarks
DCM
MM
VC stolen from Seaby & Sons, London, on 13 February 1962