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VC504 Harry George Crandon
BORN 12 February 1874
DIED 2 January 1953 AGE 71
VC Won 4 July 1901 AGE 27
Place VC Won Springbok Laagle
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Harry George Crandon No.
VC Issue No. 504 Awards VC
Regiment 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars
Later
Now Light Dragoons
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Corporal
Place Of Birth Wells, Somerset, England
Place Of Death At his home, 39 Kingsley Road, Swinton, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Swinton & Worsley Cemetery, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 7 January 1953
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. C of E Section A, Grave 3207
Gazetted 18 October 1901
VC Presented 8 June 1902, Commander in Chief South Africa, Lord Kitchener, Pretoria, South Africa
Memorials
P Headstone, Swinton & Worsley Cemetery, Manchester, Lancashire, England
P Crandon Court, Pendlebury, Manchester, Lancashire
By The Way…
Born Henry George Crandon, always known as Harry
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