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LCPL GEORGE HARRY WYATT, VC.
George Harry Wyatt was born on 5th September 1886 at
Worcester. He enlisted into the Coldstream Guards on
23rd November 1904 at Birmingham.
He served with the 2nd Battalion at home, and with
the 3rd Battalion in Egypt. He transferred to the
Reserve on 9th January 1909.
He joined the Barnsley Borough Police and later
transferred to the Doncaster Borough Police. He was
recalled to the colours on 5th August 1914.
He went to France with the 3rd Battalion and won the
Victoria Cross at Landrecies on the night of 25th/26th
August 1914. He was promoted to Lance Sergeant on 28th
February 1917, and he was demobilised on 14th January
1919, and he then resumed his career with the Police.
After retiring from the Police Force in February 1934,
he died at Doncaster on 22nd January 1964.
As well as the VC, he was also awarded the 1914 Star and
Bar, British War Medal, Victory Medal, 1937 Coronation
Medal, 1953 Coronation, Russian Order of St George (3rd
Class). He was also Mentioned in Dispatches.
EXTRACT FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
18 Nov 1915
Victoria Cross
5854 Lance Corporal George Harry WYATT, 3rd Bn
Coldstream Guards
For conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty.
At Landrecies, on the night of 25th-26th August 1914,
when a part of his battalion was hotly engaged at the
end of a street close to some farm buildings, the enemy,
by means of incendiary bombs, set light to some straw
stacks in the farmyard. Lance Corporal Wyatt twice
dashed out of the line under heavy fire from the enemy,
who were only 25 yards distant, and extinguished the
burning straw. If the fire had spread it would have been
impossible to have held our position.
Also at Villa Cotteret, after being wounded in the head,
Lance Corporal Wyatt continued firing until he could no
longer see owing to the blood which was pouring down his
face. The Medical Officer bound up his wound and told
him to go to the rear, but he at once returned to the
firing line and continued to fight.
The
location of his medal(s) is not publicly known.
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MEDAL
ENTITLEMENT OF:
Lance Corporal George WYATT (Coldstream Guards)
Victoria Cross
1914 Star - clasp "5th Aug-22nd Nov 1914"
British War Medal ( 1914-20 )
Victory Medal ( 1914-19 ) + MiD Oakleaf
King George VI Coronation Medal ( 1937 )
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal ( 1953 )
Cross, Order of St George ( Russia ) |
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