5 November 1914 (1914-11-05) South Shields, County Durham, England
Died
24 December 2004 (2004-12-25) (aged 90) Whitesmocks, Durham, England
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve British Army
Years of service
1933–1937 (Navy) 1938–1948 (Army)
Rank
Sub-lieutenant (Navy) Captain (Army)
Service number
74134
Unit
Durham Light Infantry
Battles/wars
Second World War
Awards
Victoria Cross Emergency Reserve Decoration and bar
Other work
Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham
Captain Richard Wallace Annand VC, ERD, DL (5 November 1914 – 24 December 2004) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. This was the first VC awarded to a member of the British Army in the Second World War.
Captain Richard Wallace Annand VC, ERD, DL (5 November 1914 – 24 December 2004) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious...
Scottish painter and film-maker RichardAnnand, English soldier Walter J. D. Annand, aeronautical academic William Annand, Canadian publisher and politician...
(1991–1996), heart attack. Anne Truitt, 83, American sculptor. Capt. RichardAnnand, 90, British soldier, first Victoria Cross recipient of World War II...
presenter Moira Stuart, and first shown on BBC 2 on 16 March 2007. RichardAnnand, V.C., attended 1925–32, awarded the Victoria Cross in 1940 during the...
(Princess Louise's) 1943-04-2323 April 1943 Longstop Hill, Tunisia RichardAnnand Durham Light Infantry 1940-05-1515–16 May 1940 River Dyle, Belgium Cyril...
held the Germans for two days until ordered to withdraw on 16 May, with Lt Annand winning the Army's first V.C. of the War. The 151st brigade was ordered...
sculptor, Roger Andrews, depicting Private Thomas Young VC and Lieutenant RichardAnnand VC, who served with the Durham Light Infantry in the First World War...
guitarist (born 1919) Ifor James, horn player (born 1931) 24 December RichardAnnand, soldier, first recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II...
such attack at the south of the BEF line near Wavre, 2nd Lieutenant RichardAnnand of the 2nd Durham Light Infantry earned a Victoria Cross by preventing...
Rachel Annand Taylor (3 April 1876 – 15 August 1960) was a Scottish poet, prominent in the Celtic Revival, and later a biographer and literary critic....
Regiment) Boisieux St. Marc France 15–16 May 1940 Second Lieutenant RichardAnnand Durham Light Infantry River Dyle Belgium 21 May 1940 Company Sergeant-Major...
reasons in 1877 and, soon after his return in 1878, he succeeded James Annand as managing editor of the Newcastle Chronicle. It was a post he held until...
Raehills, near Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire. with subsidiaries Viscount of Annand and Lord Murray of Lochmaben (both c. 1622) and Lord Murray of Tyninghame...
an administration for the new government under the leadership of William Annand. McHeffey became minister without portfolio in the Executive Council. He...
of 1868, 36 out of 38 seats in the legislature. For seven years, William Annand and Joseph Howe led the ultimately unsuccessful fight to convince British...
Mortality Factors in the Life Cycle of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Adelges tsugae Annand (Homoptera: Adelgidae) in the Northeastern United States." McClure, Mark...
Burstow 1919 51 Albert Richard Godsall 1920–1924 52 James Douglas Annand 1924–1930 53 Frank Paterson 1930–1933 54 James Douglas Annand 1933–1949 55 Dr. Alexander...
Alexander Anderson Freddie Anderson William Anderson Marion Angus Aneirin J. K. Annand William Anstruther Alexander Arbuthnot Arthur Argo John Armstrong John Armstrong...
Bannister Tabb Rachel Annand Taylor Alfred Tennyson Edith Matilda Thomas Francis Thompson Thomas Traherne Herbert Trench Richard Chenevix Trench Evelyn...
ISBN 978-0-04-520007-8. OCLC 960911808. Cruz, Maria Colleen; Pollock, Kate B; Meyer, Richard; Short, Kathy G; Johnson, Karin (January 2004). "Stepping into the Wardrobe:...
1871 but returned in 1874 and served in the Liberal government of William Annand as provincial secretary. Feelings against confederation had abated and Hill...
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his hometown of Fairport, New York. The statue was sculpted by David A. Annand and commissioned by James Declan Tobin, a film producer who befriended Hoffman's...