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VC517 Sir John Edmund Gough
BORN 25 October 1871
DIED 22 February 1915 AGE 43
VC Won 22 April 1903 AGE 31
Place VC Won Daratoleh
War/Campaign Somaliland
Name Sir John Edmund Gough No.
VC Issue No. 517 Awards VC KCB CMG
Regiment Rifle Brigade
Later Royal Green Jackets
Now 2nd and 4th Battalions The Rifles
Rank VC Won Brevet Major
Rank End Of Career Brigadier-General
Place Of Birth Muree, near Rawalpindi, India (now Pakistan)
Place Of Death 25th Field Ambulane Station, Estaires, Nord, France
Buried/Location Ashes Estaires Communal Cemetery & Extension, 7 miles south-west of ArmentierΦs, Nord, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 22 February 1915
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot II, Row A, Grave 7
Gazetted 15 January 1904
VC Presented 29 February 1904 by King Edward VII at St James' Palace, Pall Mall, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Estaires Communal Cemetery & Extension, 7 miles south-west of ArmentierΦs, Nord, France
P Memorial & named on Rifle Brigade Role of Fame Memorial, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
Memorial plaque at St Patrick's Church, Innislonagh, near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
P Named on Victoria Cross memorial, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire
P Named on war memorial, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire
P Named on rifle brigade memorial, The Cloisters, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire
P Named on rifle brigade memorial, Memorial Chapel, Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey
By The Way…
He was the son of (150) Sir Charles John Stanley Gough VC and nephew of 199 Sir Hugh Henry Gough VC
VC Held By
Royal Green Jackets Museum, Peninsular Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, England
