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VC419 Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean
BORN 13 September 1870
DIED 17 August 1897 AGE 27
VC Won 17 August 1897 AGE 27
Place VC Won Nawa Kili, Upper Swat, India
War/Campaign Malakand Frontier War, India
Name Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 419 Awards VC
Regiment Indian Army, Staff Corps & Corps of Guides
Later The Guides Cavarly (Queen Victoria’s Own Frontier Force)
Now Frontier Force Pakistan Army
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Bannu, North West Frontier, India (now Pakistan)
Place Of Death Nawa Kili, Upper Swat, India
Buried/Location Ashes Guides Cemetery, St Alban's Churchyard, Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 9 November 1897 Confirmed 15 January 1907
VC Presented No presentation
Memorials
Headstone, Guides Cemetery, St Alban's Churchyard, Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Memorial at Sanctum Crypt, St Luke's Church, Chelsea, London
Memorial window at St Alban's Church, Mardan, North West Frontier, Pakistan
By The Way…
The VC was won in the Tirah campaign, which was to re open the Kyhber Pass again after an uprising of local tribes
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
