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VC323   Thomas Pride

BORN   29 March 1835

DIED   16 July 1893  AGE   58

VC Won  6 September 1864   AGE   29

Place VC Won   Shimonoseki, Japan

War/Campaign  Shimonoseki Campaign

Name   Thomas Pride   No.    

VC Issue No.   323   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Royal Navy

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Captain of the Afterguard

Rank End Of Career   Captain of the Afterguard

Place Of Birth   Oldbridge, Wareham, Dorset, England

Place Of Death   Parkstone, Dorset, England

Buried/Location Ashes   All Saints Churchyard, Western Road, Branksome Park, Bournemouth, Dorset

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   21 April 1865

VC Presented   22 September 1865 by Commander in Chief Portsmouth, Admiral Sir M Seymour, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, All Saints Churchyard, Western Road, Branksome Park, Bournemouth, Dorset

By The Way…

Headstone shows age as 57

VC Held By

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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