joined up for the Second World War and because of his unusual name people kept asking him: 'Aren't you the chap that won the VC?' In an attempt to stop the questions he changed his name [to Ingham] by deed poll in 1941 or 1942." After the First World War he became a representative for the tobacco company John Player & Sons. He died at his home in Oakdale, Blackwood, Monmouthshire, on 8 December 1950. His ashes were claimed by his family and spread on Ilkley Moor in Yorkshire. The medal His Victoria Cross was sold for £101,200 at Sotheby's on 3 May 2001 References Jim Macmillan-murphy, Greg Patton The Times 3 April 2001 and 4 May 2001 External links Burial location of Samuel Meekosha "Mid Glamorgan" News item "Samuel Meekosha's Victoria Cross sold at auction" British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross West Yorkshire Regiment soldiers British Army personnel of World War I British Army personnel of World War II West Yorkshire Regiment officers Corps of Military Accountants officers Royal Army Ordnance Corps officers Military personnel from Bradford 1893 births 1950 deaths British people of Polish descent British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross Military personnel from Leeds