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VC319 Frederick Augustus Smith
BORN 18 November 1826
DIED 22 July 1887 AGE 60
VC Won 21 June 1864 AGE 37
Place VC Won Tauranga, New Zealand
War/Campaign Waikato-Hauhau Maori War
Name Frederick Augustus Smith No.
VC Issue No. 319 Awards VC
Regiment 43rd Regiment
Later Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Now 2nd and 4th Battalions The Rifles
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Place Of Death At his home, Breerly, Duleek, Co. Meath, Ireland
Buried/Location Ashes St Kienan's Church of Ireland Churchyard, (church now resturent) Duleek, Co. Meath, Eire
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 25 July 1887
Headstone Unmarked Grave Plot/Grave no. Family plot
Gazetted 4 November 1864
VC Presented Registered post, 31 January 1865
Memorials
Headstone at Ulster Folk Museum, Holywood, Belfast, Northern Ireland
P Family plot, Duleek Churchyard, Co. Meath, Ireland
Marble memorial at Holywood Old Church, Cultra, Belfast, Northern Ireland
By The Way…
Served in the 1st Regiment Of Foot or The Royal Scots in the Crimea
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
