Awarded the VC for his heroism on 24 August 1916, age 43, while serving in the Scout Corps, 2nd South African Mounted Brigade. "Having withdrawn to a new position he found one of his wounded men had been left behind. Unmindful of personal danger he succeeded in reaching Corporal Bowker and [carried] him back. (Mlali, German East Africa)". Freemason at: №2685, Concordia Lodge.
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William Anderson Bloomfield, VC
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Freemason VCs - N2 - Bent, Bloomfield, Bromley
Spencer John Bent, 1-2 November 1914, Age 23, The East Lancashire Regiment, A...
Memorial Gates
Designed by Liam O'Connor as a reduced-scale version of Lutyens' monument at ...
Other Subjects
John Larkin
Christopher John Larkin was born on 29 July 1899, the youngest of the nine children of William Taylor Larkin (1856-1914) and Charlotte Elizabeth Larkin née Mears (1862-1939). He was baptised on 17 ...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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