Victoria Cross

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Gravemarker -
- Freshwater Cemetery : Lois [Roome], wife of P Porteous VC -

Location

In All Saints Cemetery, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Private grave marker, identifes Lois [Roome] as the wife of Patrick Porteous VC

included as a reference to a VC holder
Grave marker

Freshwater Cemetery : P Porteous VC
 
Freshwater Cemetery : P Porteous VC
 
Photo courtesy of Monuments to Courage
(Victoria Cross website)
Inscription

...
ALSO THEIR DAUGHTER
LOIS MARY
WIFE OF MAJOR P.A. PORTEOUS V.C. R.A.
DIED AT SINGAPORE
7TH OCTOBER 1953 AGED [..]


 
Further Information

On 19 August 1942 at Dieppe, France, Captain Porteous was liaison officer between two detachments whose task was to attack the heavy coast defence guns. During the initial assault Captain Porteous, with the smaller detachment was shot through the hand, but he nevertheless disarmed and killed his assailant, thereby also saving the life of a British sergeant. In the meantime the two officers of the other detachment had been killed and the Troop Sergeant Major seriously wounded, so Captain Porteous, in the face of withering fire, dashed across open ground to take command and led the men in a successful charge against the enemy, when he was severely wounded for the second time. He continued to the final objective, however, but eventually collapsed after the last gun had been destroyed.

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