Regiment 24th Regiment, 2nd (Warwickshire) Battalion, B Company
Later South Wales Borderers
Now 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Wales - disbanded July 2012
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth New Southgate, Edmonton, Middlesex, England
Place Of Death At his lodgings, 62 Cranbrook Road, Ealing, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes St Nicholas' Churchyard, Corney Road, Chiswick, West London
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 11 January 1913
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Block B or P, Grave 17
Gazetted 2 May 1879
VC Presented 12 August 1879 by Queen Victoria at Netley Hospital, Hampshire, England
Memorials
P Headstone, St Nicholas' Churchyard, Corney Road, Chiswick, West London
P Blue plaque at 62 Cranbrook Road, Chiswick, London
P Victoria Cross honours board, The Royal Welsh Museum, The Barracks, Brecon, Powys
P Named on victoria cross honours board, Hounslow Civic Centre, West London
By The Way…
Funeral attended by 1,500 London cabbies
Headstone repaired 1998
Original VC stolen from his pocket whilst he served as a commissionaire at the Royal United Services Institute, February 1901, a replacement was presented by King Edward VII in 1908
VC Held By
South Wales Borderers and Monmouthshire Regiment Museum of the Royal Regiment of Wales, The Barracks, Brecon, Powys, Wales
