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VC158   Duncan Charles Home

BORN   10 June 1828

DIED   1 October 1857  AGE   29

VC Won  14 September 1857  AGE   29

Place VC Won  Kashmir Gate, Delhi

War/Campaign  The Indian Mutiny

Name   Duncan Charles Home   No.    

VC Issue No.   158   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Indian Army, Bengal Engineers

Later   

Now   Royal Engineers

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant

Place Of Birth   Jubbulpore, Central Provinces, India

Place Of Death   Malagarh, India

Buried/Location Ashes  Bulandshahr (was Bolandsharh) Cemetery, Uttar Pradesh, India

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   18 June 1858

VC Presented   No presentation

Memorials

Headstone, Bulandshahr (was Bolandsharh) Cemetery, Uttar Pradesh, India

P  Named on 'For Valour' board at the Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent

P  Named on officers killed on active service board, Royal Engineers Mueseum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent

Named on Kashmir Gate Memorial, Delhi, India

P  Memorial at St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, India

By The Way…

killed when mine he was laying exploded

Lost in the 1920's whilst the son of the owner was playing soldier's in a field

VC Held By

Lost

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Thank you to Paul Watkins for photos of St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, India