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VC385 Edmund Barron Hartley
BORN 6 May 1847
DIED 20 March 1919 AGE 71
VC Won 5 June 1879 AGE 32
Place VC Won Moirosi’s Mountain, South Africa
War/Campaign Basuto War
Name Edmund Barron Hartley No.
VC Issue No. 385 Awards VC CMG
Regiment Cape Mounted Riflemen, South African Forces
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Surgeon-Major
Rank End Of Career Colonel
Place Of Birth Ivybridge, Devon, England
Place Of Death Sandringham House, Osborne Road, Southsea, Hampshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Brookwood Cemetery, Cemetery Pales, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 24 March 1919
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Plot C, Grave 193293
Gazetted 7 October 1881
VC Presented 3 December 1881, Brigadier-General Charles M Clarke
Memorials
P Headstone, Brookwood Cemetery, Cemetery Pales, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey
P Named on the Masonic Roll of Honour Scroll, First Vestibule, Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, London
Memorial at St George's Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town, South Africa
P Brass plaque, St John’s Church, Ivybridge, Devon
P Hartley Court flats, Ivybridge, Devon
By The Way…
His victoria cross was sold for £300 in 1955 at that time a record price
VC Held By
Royal Army Medical Corps Museum, Keogh Barracks, Mytchett Place Road, Ash Vale, Aldershot, Hampshire, England
