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BORN 1841
DIED 22 January 1879 AGE 37
VC Won 7 May 1867 AGE 26
Place VC Won Little Andaman Island, Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean
War/Campaign Andaman Island Expedition
Name William Griffiths No. 1056
VC Issue No. 332 Awards VC
Regiment 24th Regiment
Later South Wales Borderers
Now 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Wales - disbanded July 2012
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth Roscommon, Co. Roscommon, Ireland
Place Of Death Isandhlwana Battle Field, Zululand, South Africa
Buried/Location Ashes Isandhlwana Battle Field, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated June 1879
Headstone Unmarked Grave Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 17 December 1867
VC Presented 16 April 1868 by GOC Pegu, Major-General A Faunce at Rangoon, Burma
Memorials
P Named on Regimental Memorial at Brecon Cathedral, Powys, Wales
P Named on Regimental Memorial, Isandhlwana Battle Field, Zululand, South Africa
P Victoria Cross honours board, The Royal Welsh Museum, The Barracks, Brecon, Powys
By The Way…
William Griffiths was buried on the battlefield and his grave marked by one of the many cairns
VC Held By
South Wales Borderers and Monmouthshire Regiment Museum of the Royal Regiment of Wales, The Barracks, Brecon, Powys, Wales
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