Awarded the VC for his heroism on 12 September 1918, age 33, while serving in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. "When his company was held up, on his own initiative he rushed ahead four times, each time successfully capturing guns, displaying exceptional valour, judgement and initiative. (Laventie, France)". Freemason at: №1474, Lodge of Israel.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Alfred Wilcox, VC
Commemorated ati
Freemason VCs - Z5 - Wheeler, White, Wilcox
George Campbell Wheeler, 23 February 1917, Age 36, 9th Gurkha Rifles, Indian ...
Other Subjects
Engineer Captain Charles Gerald Taylor, MVO.
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1. A Wrexham paper has an article about Taylor: "Taylor was the first of 13 capped Wales players to lose their lives in the con...
Dame Maud McCarthy
Army Martron-in-Chief. Born Emma Maud McCarthy in Australia. In England by 1891, training as a nurse at the London Hospital, Whitechapel. Served in the South African War, 1899-1902, with the Army ...
Royal Army Medical College
Built on the site of Millbank Prison.
T. J. Bell
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
W. E. Lawrence
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.