Place VC Won Balaclava, Crimea (Charge of the Light Brigade)
War/Campaign Crimean War
Name Joseph Malone No.
VC Issue No. 20 Awards VC
Regiment 13th Light Dragoons
Later 13th Hussars
Now Light Dragoons
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Captain and Riding Master
Place Of Birth Eccles, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Place Of Death Officer's Mess, The Rugby Hotel, Pinetown, Natal, South Africa
Buried/Location Ashes St Andrew's Churchyard (Christchurch Cemetery), King's Road, Pinetown, Natal, South Africa
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 29 June 1883
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 25 September 1857
VC Presented 21 November 1857, Queen Victoria, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Memorials
Headstone St Andrew's Churchyard (Christchurch Cemetery), King's Road, Pinetown, Natal, South Africa
Plaque at St Peter's Cathedral, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Portrait at Pinetown Council Chamber, Natal, South Africa
By The Way…
Headstone renovated in 1954
VC Held By
13th/ 18th Royal Hussars Museum (Queen Mary's Own), Cannon Hall, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England
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Having his horse shot from under him, he was making his way back to British lines, when he stopped and helped John Berryman and John Farrell with the wounded officer.
