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VC155 Robert Haydon Shebbeare
BORN 13 January 1827
DIED 16 September 1860 AGE 33
VC Won 14 September 1857 AGE 30
Place VC Won Delhi, India
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name Robert Haydon Shebbeare No.
VC Issue No. 155 Awards VC
Regiment 60th Bengal Native Infantry
Later Disbanded
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Clapham, London, England
Place Of Death On board SS 'Emau', between Shanghai, China and Point du Galle
Buried/Location Ashes At sea, presumably between Shanghai and Point du Galle, China
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 21 October 1859
VC Presented By registered post
Memorials
A memorial window did exsist in St Marks church, Surbiton, Surrey, but window was destroyed by enemy action in World War 2
By The Way…
After 16 years away in India and China he died on the passage home
VC Held By
Held by the family
