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Name | Edward, BROOKS |
Robert George, LINDSAY |
Edward John, MOTT |
Robert Edward Dudley, RYDER |
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Rank | Company Sergeant Major | Brigadier General | Sergeant | Captain |
Force | 2 / 4th Bn, Ox & Bucks Light Infantry | Scots ( Fusilier ) Guards | 1st Bn, Border Regiment | Royal Navy |
VC won | St Quentin, France, 28 April 1917 |
Alma & Inkermann, Crimea, 20 September 1854 |
Le Transloy, France, 27 January 1917 |
St Nazaire, France, 27 March 1942 |
London Gaz | 27 June 1917 | 24 February 1857 | 10 March 1917 | 21 May 1942 |
Born | Oakley, 11 April 1883 |
Balcarres, Fife, 17 April 1832 |
Drayton, Berkshire, 4 July 1893 |
India, 16 February 1908 |
Died | 26 June 1944, Oxford |
10 June 1901, Wantage |
20 October 1967, Witney |
29 June 1986, The yacht "Watchdog", off Guernsey |
Grave | Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford | Holy Trinity Churchyard, Ardington | Oxford Crematorium ( image courtesy Ian Tillman ) |
Oxford Crematorium |
Location of VC |
Royal Green Jackets Museum, Winchester | Not publicly held | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | Lord Ashcroft Gallery Imperial War Museum, London |
Remarks | None | KCB. Later Lord Wantage of Lockinge | DCM | None |
OXFORDSHIRE
Name
Sir Ernest Beachcroft Beckwith,
TOWSESir Geoffrey,
VICKERSRank
Captain
Colonel
Force
1st Bn, Gordon Highlanders
1 / 7th Bn, Sherwood Foresters
VC won
Magersfontein, 2nd Boer War,
11 December 1899Hohenzollern Redoubt, France,
14 October 1915London Gaz
6 July 1900
16 November 1915
Born
Regents Park, Central London,
23 April 1864Nottingham,
13 October 1894Died
21 June 1948,
Goring-on-Thames16 March 1982,
Goring-on-ThamesGrave
St Thomas of Canterbury Churchyard, Goring
Oxford Crematorium
Location
of VCGordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen
Sherwood Foresters Museum, Nottingham
Remarks
KCVO CBE
None