Place VC Won Battle of the Alma & Inkerman, Crimea
War/Campaign Crimean War
Name Robert James Loyd-Lindsay No.
VC Issue No. 6 Awards VC KCB
Regiment Scots (Fusilier) Guards
Later
Now Scots Guards
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Brigadier-General
Place Of Birth Balcarres, Fife, Scotland
Place Of Death Lockinge House, Lockinge, near Wantage, Oxfordshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Holy Trinity Churchyard, Well Street, Ardington, near Wantage, Oxfordshire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Vault inside church
Gazetted 24 February 1857
VC Presented 26 June 1857 by Queen Victoria at Hyde Park, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone Ardington churchyard, near Wantage, Oxfordshire
Plaque at Lockinge Church, Lockinge, near Wantage, Oxfordshire
P Memorial bench, Ardington, near Wantage, Oxfordshire
Bust at Wantage Library, Wantage, Oxfordshire
Oil painting at King Alfred School, Wantage, Oxfordshire
P Memorial cross on the Ridgeway Path, near Lockinge, Oxfordshire
P Name on “For Valour” memorial, in the cloister, Eton College, Windsor
P Church pulpit dedicated and named to Lord Wantage, All Saints Church, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire
Memorial plaque, St Michael The Archangel, Church Lane East, Aldershot, Hamphire
By The Way…
Later Lord Wantage
Loyd-Lindsay Masonic Lodge (No. 3058) named in his honour 1904, Wantage, Berkshire
VC Held By
Held by family
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Serving as captain in the Scots Fusilier Guards he rallied his men under furious fire at the battle of Alma, then at the battle of Inkerman he led the charge against a large number of the enemy.
