‘FOR VALOUR’: BRITAIN’S VICTORIA CROSS WINNERS - Sidebar: December/January 1999 British Heritage Feature

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Graves of VC Winners

There are about a dozen Victoria Cross holders buried in unmarked graves in London and there may be as many as 100 in unmarked graves nationally. Unfortunately, there is no organization for the upkeep of graves although several have been found by individuals and markers placed on them. Many lie in ‘that piece of foreign soil that will forever be England’ while others went down with their ships. Here is a list of several VC winners’ graves:

Angus Buchanan VC (First World War):
Coleford Cemetery, Gloucestershire

John Cornwell VC (First World War):
Manor Park, Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

John Alexander Christie VC (First World War):
Stockport, Cheshire

Gerald Graham VC (Crimea):
St. Mary’s Church, Bideford, Devon

Arthur Evans VC (First World War):
Park Cemetery, Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.

Frederick Hitch VC (Zululand):
St. Nicholas Churchyard, Chiswick, London

Albert Edward McKenzie VC (First World War):
Camberwell Cemetery, Surrey

Godfrey Meynell VC (India):
Guides’ Cemetery, Marden, Kent

John Taylor VC (Crimea):
Woolwich, Kent

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