GRAVE LOCATION FOR HOLDERS OF THE VICTORIA CROSS
IN THE COUNTY OF :
CUMBRIA
GRAVE LOCATION FOR HOLDERS OF THE VICTORIA CROSS
IN THE COUNTY OF :
CUMBRIA
| Name | Harry, CHRISTIAN |
James, HEWITSON |
Tom Fletcher, MAYSON |
Samuel, WASSELL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Private | Corporal | Lance-Sergeant | Private |
| Force | 2nd Bn The King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment | 1/4th Bn The King's Own Regiment | 1/4th Bn The King's Own Regiment | 80th Regiment (later The South Staffordshire Regiment) |
| VC won | France, 18 October 1915 |
France, 26 April 1918 |
Belgium, 31 July 1917 |
Isandhlwana, Zululand, 22 January 1879 |
| London Gaz | 3 March 1916 | 28 June 1918 | 14 September 1917 | 17 June 1879 |
| Born | Pennington, Lancashire, 17 January 1892 |
Coniston, 15 October 1892 |
Silecroft, 3 November 1893 |
Birmingham, 28 July 1856 |
| Died | 2 September 1974, West Cumberland Hospital |
2 March 1963, Ulverston |
21 February 1958, Barrow-in-Furness |
31 January 1927, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Grave | Egremont Cemetery | Coniston Churchyard | St Mary's Churchyard, Wicham | Barrow-in-Furness Cemetery (Headstone erected 1986) |
| Location of VC |
King's Own Regiment Museum, Lancaster | Not publicly held | St Mary's Church, Whicham | Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Lichfield |
| Remarks | None | None | None | None |
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