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BORN 13 July 1858
DIED 24 July 1907 AGE 49
VC Won 28 March 1879 AGE 20
Place VC Won Zlobane Mountain, Zululand, South Africa
War/Campaign The Zulu War
Name Henry Lysons No.
VC Issue No. 378 Awards VC CB
Regiment Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Colonel
Place Of Birth Morden, Surrey, England
Place Of Death Mandeville Place, Marylebone, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes St Peter's Churchyard, Rodmarton, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 5 April 1882
VC Presented 18 August 1882, Colonel Craig, Cawnpore, India
Memorials
P Headstone, St Peter's Churchyard, Rodmarton, near Cirencester
P Named on oak panel, Victoria Cross memorial, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
P Named on wall, Victoria Cross memorial, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
By The Way…
285 Sir Evelyn Wood VC, described Lysons VC action as, “the greatest deed I ever saw performed in my life”
VC Held By
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Regimental Museum, Low Parks Museum, 129 Muir Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland