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This blue commemorative plaque records: For Valour. Corporal TWH Veale VC 8th Battalion Devonshire Regiment. Theodore Veale Born Dartmouth, 11th November 1893, Died 6th November 1980. Awarded the Victoria Cross for most conspicious bravery in the gallant rescue under enemy fire of Lieutenant Eric Savill during the battle of the Somme on 20th July 1916.
Corporal Theodore Veale VC was a British soldier awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing Lieutenant Eric Savill under heavy enemy fire during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, exemplifying extraordinary bravery.
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