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VC435 Charles FitzClarence
BORN 8 May 1865
DIED 12 November 1914 AGE 49
VC Won 14 & 27 October, 26 December 1899 AGE 34
Place VC Won Near Mafeking
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Charles FitzClarence No.
VC Issue No. 435 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Fusilers
Later Fusiliers (Protectorate Regiment)
Now Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Brigadier - General
Place Of Birth Bishopscourt, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Place Of Death Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgium
Buried/Location Ashes Named on Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing, 5 Frenchlaan, Ypres, (Ieper), Vlaams Gewest, Belgium
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Panel 3, Column 1
Gazetted 6 July 1900
VC Presented 25 October 1900 by the Commander in Chief, South Africa, Lord Roberts VC at Pretoria, South Africa
Memorials
P Named on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium
P Named on War Memorial, St Peters Church, Eaton Square, London
Named on memorial, Sandhurst Memorial Chapel, Camberly, Surrey
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Eaton College, Windsor, Berkshire
P Named on Eaton College War Memorial, Windsor, Berkshire
P Named on oak panel, Victoria Cross Memorial, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
P Named on wall, Victoria Cross Memorial, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
P Name on house war memorial panel, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
By The Way…
It is normally thought that a Brigadier General would be way back in a safe place, but he died leading his men in November 1914
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
Thank you to Jill Shepherd, librarian and archivist at Wellington College
