Captain Herbert Richard Westmacott was a British Army officer who became the first person to be awarded a posthumous Military Cross. As an officer of the Grenadier Guards on extra regimental employment to the Special Air Service (SAS), he died in an encounter with the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- January 11, 1952
- Died
- May 2, 1980, 1980
