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VC165 George Alexander Renny
BORN 12 May 1825
DIED 5 January 1887 AGE 61
VC Won 16 September 1857 AGE 32
Place VC Won Delhi Magazine
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name George Alexander Renny No.
VC Issue No. 165 Awards VC
Regiment Bengal Horse Artillery
Later Royal Regiment of Artillery
Now Royal Regiment of Artillery
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Major-General
Place Of Birth Riga, Latvia (formely Russia)
Place Of Death Bath, Somerset, England
Buried/Location Ashes Locksbrook Cemetery, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, Somerset, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section FJ, Grave 864
Gazetted 12 April 1859
VC Presented 09 November 1860 by Queen Victoria at Home Park, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Locksbrook Cemetery, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, Somerset, England
P Named in Royal Artillery Chapel, Woolwich, London
By The Way…
His Victoria Cross was bought for £130,000
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
