FOX, Victor Alan

Victor was born 1901 in Newport to Frank & Caroline Lavinia (nee RICE) FOX of East Cowes. He was married to Edythe Irene, in 1926 in Sussex, who was living at 43 Trouville Road, Clapham Park, London at the time of Victor’s death in 1940.

Victor’s father was, at one time, a Principal Prison Officer at Parkhurst & they lived in married quarters at the prison.

Victor, aged 39, was reported as Missing Presumed Killed in Action on the 28th of May 1940 & was originally Commemorated on the Dunkirk Memorial. He was later found to be buried in the Lille Southern Cemetery in France as an Unknown British Soldier & rededicated with a new headstone, bearing the Family Inscription: “YOU'VE FOUND THE PLACE WHERE I AM LYING AND ALL MY GRAVE SHALL WARMER, SWEETER BE” alongside over 600 WW I & nearly 300 WW II casualties.

Victor is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.