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VC509 Leslie Cecil Maygar
BORN 26 May 1874
DIED 17 November 1917 AGE 42
VC Won 23 November 1901 AGE 27
Place VC Won Geelhoutboom, Natal
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Leslie Cecil Maygar No.
VC Issue No. 509 Awards VC DSO VD
Regiment Australian Forces, 5th Victoria Mounted Rifles
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Dean Station, Kilmore, Victoria, Australia
Place Of Death In a field hospital at Berrsheba, Palestine (now Israel)
Buried/Location Ashes Beersheba War Cemetery, 25 miles south-east of Gaza (formely Palestine), Israel
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Row Q, Grave 82
Gazetted 11 February 1902
VC Presented 8 June 1902, Commander in Chief South Africa, Lord Kitchener, Pretoria, South Africa
Memorials
Headstone, Beersheba War Cemetery, 25 miles south-east of Gaza (formely Palestine), Israel
Named on Euroa War Memorial, Victoria, Australia
Maygar Hill at Euroa, Victoria, Australia .
Named on brass VC plaque, Longwood, Victoria, Australia
Memorial at Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Oak tree, outside Euroa Civic Hall, Euroa, Victoria, Australia
By The Way…
One of 3 winners of the Victoria Cross to come from the small township of Euroa, the others being 641 Alexander Burton and 642 Frederick Tubb
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
