Lance Corporal CECIL REGINALD NOBLE
Service Number: 3697
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Rifle Brigade
"C" Coy. 2nd Bn.
Date of Death
Died 13 March 1915
Age 23 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Victoria Cross
- Additional Info Son of Hannah Noble, of "Ferndean," 172, Capstone Rd., Bournemouth, and the late Frederick Leopold Noble.
- Personal Inscription IN GOD'S KEEPING WE LEAVE THEE DEAR UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN
- Additional Citation note
An extract from the Supplement to the London Gazette of 27th April, 1915 (No. 29146) records the award of the V.C. to this N.C.O. and to C.S.M. H. Daniels "For most conspicuous bravery on 12th March, 1915, at Neuve Chapelle, when their battalion was impeded in the advance to attack by wire entanglements, and subjected to a very severe machine-gun fire, these two men voluntarily rushed in front and succeeded in cutting the wires."
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