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BORN 29 August 1845
DIED 12 March 1891 AGE 45
VC Won 22-23 January 1879 AGE 33
Place VC Won Rorke’s Drift, Natal
War/Campaign The Zulu War
Name Gonville Bromhead No.
VC Issue No. 364 Awards VC
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 Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Major
Place Of Birth Versailles, France
Place Of Death Camp Dabhaura, Allahabad, India
Buried/Location Ashes New Cantonment Cemetery, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Plot B-1, Grave 66
Gazetted 2 May 1879
VC Presented 22 August 1879 by General Sir Garnet Wolseley at Utrecht, Transvaal, South Africa
Memorials
Headstone, New Cantonment Cemetery, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
P Plaque at Brecon Cathedral, Powys, Wales
P Window at St Germain's Church, Thurlby, near Lincoln, Lincolnshire
P Victoria Cross honours board, The Royal Welsh Museum, The Barracks, Brecon, Powys
Portrait & uniform at Magnus Grammar School, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire
By The Way…
Presented with a Sword of Honour by the City of Lincoln
VC Held By
South Wales Borderers and Monmouthshire Regiment Museum of the Royal Regiment of Wales, The Barracks, Brecon, Powys, Wales
Thank you to Nick & Lorna Martin for photos Rorke’s Drift
