
VICTORIA CROSS HOLDERS BURIED IN BELGIUM
Data per holder
Name Holder :
Philip Eric
BENT
Rank :
Lieutenant Colonel
Cemetery :
Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele
GPS :
GPS :
Tyne Cotstraat,18 Passchendaele
N : 50,887345° E : 2,999328°
Panel :
50
Date Pictures :
September 5th, 2010 and 8th August 2013.
Comments :
This place is indeed THE place to be. Please note that the car parking is situated in the Vijfwegestraat.
In the Westhoek : this is the graveyard with most individual VC graves : 3. There are also 3 VC holders mentioned on the panels.
On a panel a VC holder can be identified by the “V.C.” in front of his name.
Note that the register of the panels is not located at the entrance but in the left tower of the memorial.
Panel 50 is located in the first courtyard of the memorial starting from the left, see below picture. When entering, you will see right in front a kind of altar, the panel is the 2nd to the left of it as indicated in below picture.
Bent is mentioned in the upper left corner of the panel, see red rectangle in picture.