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VC366 James Langley Dalton
BORN December 1832
DIED 8 January 1887 AGE 54
VC Won 22-23 January 1879 AGE 46
Place VC Won Rorke’s Drift, Natal
War/Campaign The Zulu War
Name James Langley Dalton No.
VC Issue No. 366 Awards VC
Regiment Commissariat and Transport Department
Later Royal Army Service Corps
Now Royal Logistic Corps
Rank VC Won Acting Assistant Commissary
Rank End Of Career Acting Assistant Commissary
Place Of Birth St Andrew's Parish, London, England
Place Of Death Grosvenor Port Hotel, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Buried/Location Ashes Russell Road Roman Catholic Cemetery, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Plot E
Gazetted 17 November 1879
VC Presented 16 January 1880 by Major-General The Hon. Sir Henry Hugh Clifford VC at Fort Napier, Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Memorials
Headstone, Russell Road Roman Catholic Cemetery, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
By The Way…
Headstone shows age as 53
Only civilian to be mentioned in dispatches during the 9th Kaffir War
VC Held By
Royal Logistic Corps Museum, Deepcut, Camberley, Surrey, England
Thank you to Nick & Lorna Martin for photos Rorke’s Drift
