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VC384 Robert George Scott
BORN 22 April 1857
DIED 3 October 1918 AGE 61
VC Won 8 April 1879 AGE 21
Place VC Won Moirosi’s Mountain, South Africa
War/Campaign Basuto War
Name Robert George Scott No.
VC Issue No. 384 Awards VC DSO
Regiment South African Forces, Cape Mounted Riflemen
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Whittlesey, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England
Place Of Death Near Wynberg, Cape Province, South Africa
Buried/Location Ashes Plumstead Cemetery, Victoria Road, Wynberg, Cape Province, South Africa
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Allotment EA, Grave 88
Gazetted 1 October 1880
VC Presented 17 December 1880, Queen Victoria, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Memorials
Named on sons, Guy Sinclair & Robert Falkiner Sinclair graves at Kensington Cemetery, Gunnersbury, London
Manchester Regiment Victoria Cross memorial, town hall, Ashton Under Lyne, Manchester
By The Way…
Was one of two Victoria Cross winners to attend Epsom college
VC Held By
Not known
