
VICTORIA CROSS HOLDERS BURIED IN BELGIUM
Data per holder
Name Holder :
Ernest
SEAMAN
Rank :
Lance Corporal
Cemetery :
Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele
GPS :
GPS :
Tyne Cotstraat,18 Passchendaele
N : 50,887345° E : 2,999328°
Panel :
70
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 70 is located second from the right of the entrance to the first courtyard of the memorial that you encounter when you start walking from the left tower, see below picture.
Seaman is mentioned in the row in the middle.