Frederick George Dancox
Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Private Frederick George Dancox Template:Post-nominals (1878[1] – 30 November 1917) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Military career
Dancox was about 38 years old, and a private in the 4th Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment,[2] and was awarded the Victoria Cross for his deeds on 9 October 1917 at the Boesinghe sector, Belgium.
Citation
Dancox was killed in action near Masnieres, France, on 30 November 1917 and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial to the Missing.[3] His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Worcestershire Regiment Museum in the Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, Worcester.
Notes
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References
- Worcestershire Council
- Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
- The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)
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- 1870s births
- 1917 deaths
- Military personnel from Worcester, England
- British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Worcestershire Regiment soldiers
- British military personnel killed in World War I
- British Army personnel of World War I
- British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Missing in action of World War I