David Charles Harvey was born on the 26 July 1946 in East Ham . He is notable for his seminal work Monuments To Courage which documents the graves of almost all recipients of the Victoria Cross, a task which took him over 36 years to complete. East Ham is a place in the London Borough of Newham. ... Monuments To Courage is a book by David Harvey, published in 1999. ... Victoria Cross medal, ribbon, and bar. ...

Harvey was the son of a grocer and worked as a salesman after attending Hinckley Wood School in Surrey. He later joined the Metropolitan Police where he started the mounted police magazine One One Ten. Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ... Metropolitan Police redirects here. ...

A chance meeting with Canon William Lummis led him to take over his life-work of researching and documenting the final resting places of all Victoria Cross recipients. This task took Harvey to 48 countries over the next four decades, though it was seriously hampered when he was hit by a drunk-driver on a visit to the Somme in 1992. The accident left Harvey in a wheelchair for the remainder of his life and he later had to have a leg amputated. Canon William Lummis, MC, is notable for building-up an archive on the final resting places of Victoria Cross holders. ... Victoria Cross medal, ribbon, and bar. ... Somme is a French département, named after the Somme River, located in the north of France. ...

Harvey married once in 1968, to Ruth Ward. The couple had a son and two daughters. They divorced in 1979.

Harvey died on 4 March 2004.

Reference

David Harvey (obituary) in The Daily Telegraph 17 March 2004
David Harvey (obituary) in The Independent 13 March 2004 This article concerns the British newspaper. ... The Independent is a British compact newspaper published by Tony OReillys Independent News & Media. ...