Person    | Male  Born 27/1/1895  Died 29/8/1918

Cecil Sewell, VC

Categories: Armed Forces

Countries: France

War dead, WW1 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

Soldier. Born Cecil Harold Sewell in Greenwich. On 29th August 1918 at Fremicourt, France, he was in command of a section of Whippet light tanks. He crossed open ground under heavy machine-gun fire to rescue the crew of another tank which had slipped into a shell-hole and caught fire. The door of the tank had become jammed, but he was able to dig around it to get it open and release the crew. He then saw a member of his own crew lying wounded and went to his assistance, but was fatally shot while dressing the man's wounds. For his actions he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

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