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Name Singh Gobind No. 2008
VC Issue No. 933 Awards VC
Regiment 28th Light Cavalry attached to the 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse), Indian Army
Later 7th Light Cavalry
Now Indian Army Armoured Corps
Rank VC Won Lance-Daffadar - Cavalry Corporal
Rank End Of Career Sergeant-Major
Place Of Birth Damoe Village, Jodhpur, India
Place Of Death Nagaur, Rajputana, India
Buried/Location Ashes Damoe Village, Naguar Rajasthan (cremated), India
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 11 January 1918
VC Presented 6 February 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Named on Memorial Gates, Constitution Hill, London
By The Way…
As with lots of names of soldiers in the army, his name was sometimes misspelt as ‘Govind Singh’
VC Held By
Unknown
BORN 7 December 1887
DIED November 1941 AGE 53
VC Won 1 December 1917 AGE 29
Place VC Won East of Peizieres, France
War/Campaign First World War 1917
