Charles Geoffrey Vickers

From Alf Askin's research notes

Reproduced as Alf wrote it, c. 2000–2005. Spelling and abbreviations are his own.

VICKERS, Charles Geoffrey. (reg No. 1252).

Captain. 1st/7th Battalion. Sherwood Foresters.

London Gazetted on 18th November 1915.

VC Medal's Custodian is the Sherwood Foresters Museum, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham .

Born on 13th October 1894 at Nottingham.

Died on 16th March 1982 at Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. He was cremated at Oxford Crematorium.

Digest of Citation reads: When most of his men had been killed or wounded, leaving only two men available to hand him bombs at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, on the 14th October 1915, Captain Vickers held a barrier for several hours against an enemy attack with bombs from front and flank. He ordered a barrier to be built behind him as a means of ensuring the trenches safety, regardless of the fact that he, himself, would be cut off. He was eventually severely wounded but not before the second barrier had been completed. Throughout he displayed an example for courage and determination.

Additional information:.Colonel Sir Geoffrey Vickers was the son of Charles Henry and Jessica Anna (née Lomas) of Nottingham. Educated at Oundle School and Merton College, Oxford. He was commissioned in Sherwood Forester on the 2nd September 1914.