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VC428 The Hon. Raymond Harvey Lodge Joseph De Montmorency
BORN 5 February 1867
DIED 23 February 1900 AGE 33
VC Won 2 September 1898 AGE 31
Place VC Won Khartoum
War/Campaign Sudanese War
Name The Hon. Raymond Harvey Lodge Joseph De Montmorency No.
VC Issue No. 428 Awards VC
Regiment 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers
Later Queens Royal Lancers
Now The Royal Lancers
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Place Of Death Near Stormberg, South Africa
Buried/Location Ashes Molteno Cemetery, Aitchison Street, Molteno, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 15 November 1898
VC Presented 6 January 1899 by Queen Victoria at Osborne House, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
Memorials
Headstone, Molteno Cemetery, Aitchison Street, Molteno, Eastern Cape, South Africa
P Marble memorial, All Saints Church, Dewlish, Dorset
P Memorial window, All Saints Church, Dewlish, Dorset
P Named on Boer War Memorial, Marlborough College Chapel, Marlborough, Wiltshire
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Marlborough College, Wiltshire
By The Way…
A nickname for the 21st Lancers was “the boneheads”
VC Held By
Not known
Thank you to Terry Rogers, honorary archivist, for access to Marlborough College
