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VC359 Thomas Elsdon Ashford
BORN 1859
DIED 21 February 1913 AGE 53
VC Won 16 August 1880 AGE 21
Place VC Won Deh Khoja
War/Campaign Second Afghan War, Afghanistan
Name Thomas Elsdon Ashford No. 49/1317
VC Issue No. 359 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Fusiliers
Later
Now Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth 2 Peck's Cottage, All Saints, Newmarket, Suffolk, England
Place Of Death At his home, Skinners Lane, Whitwick, Leicestershire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Whitwick Cemetery, Church Lane, Whitwick, Leicestershire
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 4 March 1913
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Grave no. 2271
Gazetted 7 October 1881
VC Presented 13 December 1881 by GOC Madras, Lord Roberts VC at Madras, India
Memorials
Headstone, Whitwick Cemetery, Church Lane, Whitwick, Leicestershire
Thomas Road, Elsdon Road & Ashford Road, Whitwick, Leicestershire
By The Way…
His headstone was erected 1992
Gazetted as John Ashford
VC Held By
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (City of London) Museum, H M Tower of London, London, England
