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VC425   Samuel Vickery

BORN   6 February 1873

DIED   20 June 1952  AGE   79

VC Won   20 October & 16 November 1897   AGE   24

Place VC Won   Dargal Heights, India

War/Campaign  Tirah Campaign, India

Name   Samuel Vickery   No.    3937 & 56966

VC Issue No.   425   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Dorsetshire Regiment

Later   Devonshire & Dorset Regiment

Now   1st Battalion The Rifles

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Corporal

Place Of Birth   Wambrook, Chard, Somerset, England

Place Of Death   St David's Hospital, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales

Buried/Location Ashes   Glyntaff Crematorium, Crematorium Road, Treforest, Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

Cremated   Glyntaff Crematorium, Crematorium Road, Treforest, Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

Date Buried/Cremated   25 June 1952

Headstone   Ashes   Plot/Grave no.   Lawns 1, 2, 3 & 4, Old Garden

Gazetted   20 May 1898

VC Presented   14 May 1898 by Queen Victoria at Netley Hospital, Hampshire, England

Memorials

P  Samuel Vickery Way, Chard, Somerset

P  Display at Chard Guildhall, Somerset

By The Way…

The nickname for the Devonshire Regiment was “the bloody eleventh”

VC Held By

Devon & Dorset Regimental Museum, The Keep, Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, England

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