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 "Having withdrawn to a new position he found one of his wounded men had been left behind.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: â„–2685, Concordia Lodge.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
William Anderson Bloomfield, VC
Commemorated ati
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
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
H. J. Packham
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Helen Knibb
Nurse working at Lewisham Hospital died in WW1, while working there. Western Front Association gives: "Helen Knibb was born in Kettering in the autumn of 1885 and died in Lewisham aged 33 in the s...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
David Davies
One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
1 memorial
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