> Hello,
>
> I have come across your site as the result of a message posted on
Genforum.
> It is very interesting and informative.
>
> I was looking at the list of those who died in action and I thought that
> you might be interested to know that there is an Eardley who won The
> Victoria Cross which, as you know, is the highest award for gallantry In
> the British and Commonwealth forces.
>
> I enclose below the account from:
> "The Register of the Victoria Cross"
> Published by This England Books
> ISBN 0 906324 07 6
>
>
> EARDLEY, George Harold,
> A/Sergeant 4th Bn., The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
> Other Decorations: MM
> Date of Gazette: 2 Jan 1945
> Place/Date of Birth: Congleton Cheshire - 6th May 1912
> Place/Date of Death: -
> Memorials: -
> Town/County Connections: Congleton, Cheshire
> Remarks: -
> Account of Deed: On 16 Oct. 1944 east of Overloon, Holland, Sergeant
> Eardley's platoon was ordered to clear some orchards where a strong
> opposition was holding up the advance, but 80 yards away from the
objective
> the platoon was halted by automatic fire from machine-gun posts. Sergeant
> Eardley spotted one of these posts and moving forward under heavy fire
> killed the officer at the post with a grenade. He went on to destry two
> more posts single-handed, under fire so intense that it daunted those who
> were with him, but his action enabled the platoon to achieve its objective
> and thus ensured the success of the whole attack.
>
>
> Eardley Wilmot are my first two Christian names. That was the surname of
> my 2x great grandmother, Selina Elizabeth Eardley Wilmot who married my 2x
> great grandfather Rev Guy Bryan at Tottenham, London on 5th March 1811.
>
> I am descended from the marriage of Robert Wilmot to Elizabeth Eardley,
> daughter of Edward Eardley and Anne Monkhouse, in the late 17th, early
17th
> centuries.
>
> With best regards,
>
> Eardley Bryan
>
>
>
> Eardley Bryan
>
> 3 Churchfield Crescent
> Poole, Dorset, BH15 2QS
>
>
> ewh.bryan@ukonline.co.uk
>
> Cheshire Regiment web site:
> http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ewh.bryan/Cheshire-1.htm
>
> Personal
> http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ewh.bryan/index.htm

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