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VC494 Donald Dickson Farmer
BORN 28 May 1877
DIED 23 December 1956 AGE 79
VC Won 13 December 1900 AGE 23
Place VC Won Novitgedacht Also Nooitgedacht
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Donald Dickson Farmer No.
VC Issue No. 494 Awards VC MSM
Regiment Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Later The Highlanders
Now 4th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth 5 Winchester Row, Kelso, Borders, Scotland
Place Of Death Radium Institute, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Anfield Cemetery, Priory Road, Liverpool, Merseyside
Cremated Anfield Crematorium, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Date Buried/Cremated 28 December 1956
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Plot 9, Garden of Remembrance
Gazetted 12 April 1901
VC Presented 14 August 1901, Duke of York (later King George V), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Memorials
P Memorial plaque at Kelso Town War Memorial, Borders, Scotland
By The Way…
Winning the Victoria Cross as a Sergeant, he later attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
VC Held By
Highlanders Regiment Museum, Fort George, Inverness, Highlands, Scotland
