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VC437 Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn
BORN 27 November 1870
DIED 4 July 1913 AGE 42
VC Won 21 October 1899 AGE 28
Place VC Won Battle of Elandslaagte
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn No.
VC Issue No. 437 Awards VC
Regiment Gordon Highlanders
Later The Highlanders
Now 4th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Major
Place Of Birth Clapham, London, England
Place Of Death Middlesex Hospital, Middlesex, England
Buried/Location Ashes Brookwood Cemetery, Cemetery Pales, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 8 July 1913
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. St Judes Avenue, Plot 3, Grave 172317
Gazetted 20 July 1900
VC Presented 15 December 1900, Queen Victoria, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Brookwood Cemetery, Cemetery Pales, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey
Memorial, Hyde Park Barracks, South Carriage Drive, Westminster, London
By The Way…
He died in a riding accident in Hyde Park while avoiding some children who had walked out in front of him
VC Held By
Gordon Highlanders Museum, St Luke's, Viewfield Road, Aberdeen, Scotland
