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BORN 15 February 1827
DIED 8 June 1908 AGE 81
VC Won 7 September 1863 AGE 36
Place VC Won Cameron Town, New Zealand
War/Campaign Waikato-Hauhau Maori War
Name Edward McKenna No.
VC Issue No. 308 Awards VC
Regiment 65th Regiment
Later York & Lancaster Regiment
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Colour-Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Ensign
Place Of Birth Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Place Of Death Palmerston North, New Zealand
Buried/Location Ashes Terrace End Cemetery, Napier Street, Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui, N.I. New Zealand
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 10 June 1908
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Presbyterian Block II, Plot 65
Gazetted 16 January 1864
VC Presented 18 June 1864, GOC New Zealand, Lieutenant-General Sir D A Cameron, Te Awamuta Camp, New Zealand
Memorials
Headstone, Terrace End Cemetery, Napier Street, Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui, N.I. New Zealand
P Named on Victoria Cross memorial outside Leeds City Art Gallery, Cetenary Square, Leeds, Yorkshire
Named on Regimental Memorial at site of VC action, Alexandria Redoubt, Cameron Town, New Zealand
By The Way…
Headstone shows age as 79
Original VC stolen, replacement purchased by McKenna in 1868
VC Held By
Auckland Institute & Museum, New Zealand
