2nd Lieutenant Edmund de Wind VC - plinth

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Reference WMO/258718

Address:

Comber Square

Comber

BT23 5AT

Northern Ireland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Stone of remembrance
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Black marble plinth with gold writing on three sides and on top, a representation of the Victoria Cross. This memorial replaced a captured German gun which was taken for scrap during WW2 (WMO/246127).
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Face 1: EDMUND DE WIND VC 1883-1918/BORN IN COMBER. KILLED IN ACTION 21 MARCH 1918 AT RACE COURSE REDOUBT, GRUGIES, FRANCE.. ALTHOUGH TWICE WOUNDED AND PRACTICALLY SINGLE-HANDED, EDMUND DEFENDED THIS IMPORTANT POSITION FOR SEVEN HOURS UNTIL HELP ARRIVED. FOR THIS ACTION HE WAS POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE VICTORIA CROSS.; Face 2: A CAPTURED GERMAN FIELD GUN WAS PRESENTED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO COMBER IN RECOGNITION OF THE HEROISM OF EDMUND DE WIND. THIS SAT IN COMBER SQUARE FROM 1939 UNTIL 1940 WHEN IT WAS REMOVED IN RESPONSE TO THE WAR EFFORT.; Face 3: THIS MAPLE LEAF REPRESENTS EDMUND DE WIND'S LINKS WITH CANADA AND HIS SERVICE WITH THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES 1914-17. MOUNT DE WIND, ALBERTA, CANADA IS NAMED IN HIS HONOUR

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