Place VC Won Battle of the Alma & Sebastopol, Crimea
War/Campaign Crimean War
Name John Simpson Knox No.
VC Issue No. 5 Awards VC
Regiment Scots (Fusilier) Guards & Rifle Brigade
Later Scots Guards & Royal Green Jackets
Now The Rifles Scots Guards
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Brevet-Major
Place Of Birth King Street, Calton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Place Of Death At his home, 6 Oriel Terrace, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Cheltenham Cemetery, Bouncers Lane, Gloucestershire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section N, Grave 17085
Gazetted 24 February 1857
VC Presented 26 June 1857 by Queen Victoria at Hyde Park, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Cheltenham cemetery, Gloucestershire
P Named on Rifle Brigade Role of Fame Memorial, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
P Named on wife's headstone, Harriet Louisa, died 4 January 1890 (C of E Section 6, Grave 312), Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool, Lancashire
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Headstone renovated late 2001
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Awarded the VC for two different actions, for two different regiments, at two different ranks. First at the Battle of Alma he steadied the ranks of the Scots Fusilier Guards. Then as lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade led the attack on the Redan, Sebastopol.
