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VC326   William Spottiswoode Trevor

BORN   9 October 1831

DIED   2 November 1907  AGE   76

VC Won  2 April 1865   AGE   33

Place VC Won   Dewan-Giri, Bhootan, India

War/Campaign  Bhutan War

Name   William Spottiswoode Trevor   No.    

VC Issue No.   326   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Indian Army, Bengal Engineers

Later   

Now   Royal Engineers

Rank VC Won   Major

Rank End Of Career   Major-General

Place Of Birth   India

Place Of Death   London, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, West London, England

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   Square 179/RS, Grave 31775

Gazetted   31 December 1867

VC Presented   23 March 1868, Major-General C F Fordyce, Calcutta, India

Memorials

P  Headstone, Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, West London

P  Named on 'For Valour' board at the Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent

By The Way…

As a young boy, he was prisoner of the Emir Akbar Khan, in Kabul, Afghanistan. It’s here he learned to read and write Hindustani and Persian

VC Held By

Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent, England

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