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VC345 Sir Reginald Clare Hart
BORN 11 June 1848
DIED 10 October 1931 AGE 83
VC Won 31 January 1879 AGE 30
Place VC Won Bazar Valley
War/Campaign Second Afghan War, Afghanistan
Name Sir Reginald Clare Hart No.
VC Issue No. 345 Awards VC GCB KCVO
Regiment Corps of Royal Engineers
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career General
Place Of Birth Scarriff, Co. Clare, Ireland
Place Of Death Bournemouth, Hampshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Tower Hill, Netherbury, Dorset
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 10 June 1879
VC Presented 9 December 1879, Queen Victoria, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Tower Hill, Netherbury, Dorset
P Named on son’s headstone, Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Tower Hill, Netherbury, Dorset
P Brass plaque St Mary the Virgin church, Netherbury, Dorset
P Named on VC memorial Marlborough College Wiltshire
Named on Roll of Honour, Big Classical, Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire
Display & named in memorial book 'For Valour', Cheltenham College Library, Gloucestershire
Entry in 'Honours Book', Archives Department, Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire
P Framed citation & picture in Classroom no. 6, Centenary Block, Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire
By The Way…
In later life he was Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
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The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
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