In the Autumn of 2007, Pankhurst Graphic Masonry of Woking, carried out the complete cleaning and repair to the stonework, the inscription panels were cleaned and made completely legible, and the grave space and foundations to the cross were made sound.

Addison's grave: before and after

For the award of the Victoria Cross.

[ London Gazette, 26 September 1916 ], Sannaiyat, Mesopotamia ( Iraq ), 6 April 1916, The Reverend ( Temporary Chaplain of the Forces, 4th Class ), William Robert Fountaine Addison, Army Chaplain's Department.

For most conspicuous bravery ( Sannaiyat, Mesopotamia ). He carried a wounded man to the cover of a trench, and assisted several others to the same cover, after binding up their wounds under heavy rifle and machine gun fire. In addition to these unaided efforts, by his splendid example and utter disregard of personal danger, he encouraged the stretcher-bearers to go forward under heavy fire and collect the wounded.

William Addison was invested with his Victoria Cross by King George V at Buckingham Palace on the 3rd August 1917.

Following the end of the First World War William Addison remained in the Army Chaplain's Department, serving in several posts in England, in Khartoum, Malta, and with the Shanghai Defence Force. In August 1938 Addison retired from Army service as a chaplain, after serving for more than twenty years, and having lived in twenty-one different houses. During the Second World War Addison was reappointed chaplain to the forces in 1939 and deputy assistant chaplain-general in South Wales.

William Addison died in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, on 7 January 1962. On 11 January his funeral took place at St Barnabas's Church, Bexhill-on-Sea, and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery on the same day

Medal entitlement of The Reverend William Addison - Army Chaplain's Department

• Victoria Cross
• 1914-15 Star
• British Wat Medal ( 1914-20 )
• Victory Medal ( 1914-19 ) + MiD Oakleaf
• War Medal ( 1939-45 )
• King George VI Coronation Medal ( 1937 )
• Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal ( 1953 )
• Order of St George ( 4th Class ) ( Russia )