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BORN c.1840
DIED 14 January 1868 AGE c.28
VC Won 30 June 1866 AGE 26
Place VC Won Tubabecelong, Gambia River, West Africa
War/Campaign The Gambia
Name Samuel Hodge No.
VC Issue No. 328 Awards VC
Regiment 4th West India Regiment
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Lance-Corporal
Place Of Birth Tortola, West Indies
Place Of Death Belize City, Honduras (now Belize)
Buried/Location Ashes Belize City Military Cemetery, Yarborough, Belize
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Unmarked Grave Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 4 January 1867
VC Presented 24 June 1867, Brigadier-General Robert Harley, Newtown Barracks, British Honduras
Memorials
By The Way…
Cemetery partially levelled (1890) and a road built on site
VC Held By
Not known
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