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VC432   The Hon. Alexander Gore Hore-Ruthven

BORN   6 July 1872

DIED   2 May 1955  AGE   82

VC Won   6 September 1898   AGE   26

Place VC Won   Gedarif

War/Campaign  Sudanese War

Name   The Hon. Alexander Gore Hore-Ruthven   No.    

VC Issue No.   432   Awards   VC   PC   CB   DSO & Bar

Regiment   Highland Light Infantry

Later   Royal Highland Fusiliers

Now   2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland

Rank VC Won   Captain

Rank End Of Career   Brigadier - General

Place Of Birth   The Hermitage, Hermitage Lane, Clewer, Windsor, Berkshire, England

Place Of Death   At his home, Shipton Moyne, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England

Buried/Location Ashes   St John the Baptist Churchyard, Church Lane, Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   26 February 1899

VC Presented   11 May 1899, Queen Victoria, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, St John the Baptist Churchyard, Church Lane, Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire

Plaque at his home, The Hermitage, Hermitage Lane, Clewer, Windsor, Berkshire

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire

Named on memorial, Quetta Staff College, Balochistan, Pakistan


By The Way…

Later 1st Earl of Gowrie fought in the Sudan against the Dervish, in Somaliland, in France and Gallipoli in the First World War, and was Governer-General of Australia in World War 2


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The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M

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