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VC430 Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth
BORN 14 August 1868
DIED 21 July 1941 AGE 72
VC Won 2 September 1898 AGE 30
Place VC Won Khartoum
War/Campaign Sudanese War
Name Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth No.
VC Issue No. 430 Awards VC KCB
Regiment 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
Later
Now Queen's Dragoon Guards
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Major - General
Place Of Birth 13 Victoria Street, Westminster, London, England
Place Of Death Kongbol Homestead, near Balmoral, Victoria, Australia
Buried/Location Ashes Balmoral Cemetery, Cemtery Road, off Colraine-Balmoral Road, Balmoral, Victoria, Australia
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, Balmoral Cemetery, Cemtery Road, off Colraine-Balmoral Road, Balmoral, Victoria, Australia
Memorial, St Marys Church, Balmoral, Victoria, Australia
Named on war memorial (he unvieled it) Portland, Victoria, Australia
By The Way…
Cousin of Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout's
VC Held By
Held by family
