Education
Harrow School; Oriel College.
Harrow School; Oriel College.
Born in London in February 1896 to Thomas Colyer Colyer Fergusson and the late Beatrice Stanley. He was shot dead by a sniper that day. There is a memorial in his memory in Street Peter"s Church, Ightham, Kent.
Colyer-Fergusson was 21 years old, and an acting captain in the 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment, British Army when performed the deed on 31 July 1917 at Bellewaarde, Belgium which earned him the Victoria Cross. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Museum of The Northamptonshire Regiment (48th & 58th Foot), Northampton, England and he is buried in Menin Road South Military Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery.
