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BORN 19 April 1856
DIED 28 June 1918 AGE 62
VC Won 28 July 1880 AGE 24
Place VC Won Maiwand
War/Campaign Second Afghan War, Afghanistan
Name James Collis No.
VC Issue No. 357 Awards VC (forfeited 18 November 1895)
Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
Later
Now Royal Regiment of Artillery
Rank VC Won Gunner
Rank End Of Career Gunner
Place Of Birth Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Place Of Death Anti Vivisection Hospital, Battersea, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Wandsworth Cemetery, Magdalen Road, Earlsfield, South London
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Block 20, Common Grave 295 (now Block 52) or (Block 53, Plot 115)
Gazetted 16 May 1881
VC Presented 11 July 1881, Lord Roberts VC, Poona, India
Memorials
P Headstone, Wandsworth Cemetery, Magdalen Road, Earlsfield, South London
P Named on memorial at Royal Artillery Chapel, Woolwich, London
P Named on War Memorial in Wandsworth Cemetery, Magdalen Road, Earlsfield, London
P Victoria Cross and George Cross Memorial Stone, Wandsworth Town Hall, Wandsworth, South London
By The Way…
His VC was forfeited for bigamy
Headstone erected 1998
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
