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VC436   Robert Johnston

BORN   13 August 1872

DIED   24 March 1950  AGE   78

VC Won   21 October 1899   AGE   27

Place VC Won   Battle of Elandslaagte

War/Campaign  The Second Boer War

Name   Robert Johnston   No.    

VC Issue No.   436   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Imperial Light Horse (Natal), South African Forces

Later   

Now   Light Horse Regiment, South African Army

Rank VC Won   Captain

Rank End Of Career   Major

Place Of Birth   Laputa House, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, Ireland

Place Of Death   Nursing Home, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland

Buried/Location Ashes   St Mary's Churchyard, 1 Church Street, Inistiogne, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   26 March 1950

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   12 February 1901

VC Presented   25 July 1901 by King Edward VII at St James' Palace, Pall Mall, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, St Mary's Churchyard, 1 Church Street, Inistiogne, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland

By The Way…

Played rugby for Ireland and the British Lions, and toured South Africa, with the Lions before the Boer War

VC Held By

Not known

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