Awarded the VC for his heroism on 16 August 1917, age 21, while serving in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. "Enemy machine gun fire from a blockhouse was holding up the battalion’s advance. With four men he rushed forward firing into an opening in the blockhouse. Firing ceased. Seven machine guns and 45 prisoners were captured. (Ypres, Belgium)". Freemason at: №80, St John’s Lodge.
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Edward Cooper, VC
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Freemason VCs - N4 - Collings-Wells, Cooper, Cruickshank
John Stanhope Collings-Wells, 22-27 March 1918, Aged 37, The Bedfordshire Reg...
Other Subjects
Herbert Jones, VC
Soldier, known as H. Jones, born in Putney. He joined the army on leaving school, and in July 1960 he was commissioned into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment as a second lieutenant. Subsequently h...
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Private Howard Washbrook
Howard Washbrook was born in 1895 in Wednesfield, Staffordshire (now West Midlands), one of the ten children of Isaac Washbrook (1860-1945) and Eliza Washbrook née Brindley (1860-1920). His birth w...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
J. H. Starr
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
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