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VC379 Edward Stevenson Browne
BORN 23 December 1852
DIED 16 July 1907 AGE 54
VC Won 29 March 1879 AGE 26
Place VC Won Inhlobana, Zululand, South Africa
War/Campaign The Zulu War
Name Edward Stevenson Browne No.
VC Issue No. 379 Awards VC CB
Regiment 24th Regiment 1st Battalion
Later South Wales Borderers
Now 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Wales (disbanded July 2012)
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Brigadier-General
Place Of Birth Park Terrace, St Andrew the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Place Of Death La Rouvenaz, Commune du Chatelard, Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland
Buried/Location Ashes CimetiΦre de Clarens, Chemin de Muraz, Montreux, Switzerland
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Unmarked Grave Plot/Grave no. Grave 4771 (no longer recorded at cemetery, confirmed at Police Station)
Gazetted 17 June 1879
VC Presented 22 August 1879, Lord Wolseley, Pine Tree camp, Natal, South Africa
Memorials
P Plaque in Havard Chapel, Brecon Cathedral, Powys, Wales
P Victoria Cross honours board, the Royal Welsh Museum, The Barracks, Brecon, Powys
P Plaque in Garrison Church, Portsmouth, Hampshire
By The Way…
In 1991 the grave was reused and the gravestone was disposed of
VC Held By
South Wales Borderers and Monmouthshire Regiment Museum of the Royal Regiment of Wales, The Barracks, Brecon, Powys, Wales
