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VC101   Thomas Egerton Hale

BORN   24 September 1832

DIED   25 December 1909  AGE   77

VC Won  8 September 1855  AGE 22

Place VC Won  Sebastopol, Crimea

War/Campaign  Crimean War

Name   Thomas Egerton Hale  No.   

VC Issue No.   101   Awards   VC    CB

Regiment  7th Regiment

Later  Royal Fusiliers

Now   Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

Rank VC Won   Assistant Surgeon

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant-Colonel

Place Of Birth   Faddiley Lodge, Nantwich, Cheshire, England

Place Of Death   Botterley Hill, Nantwich, Cheshire, England

Buried/Location Ashes  Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Monks Lane, Acton, near Nantwich, Cheshire, England

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   5 May 1857

VC Presented   26 June 1857 by Queen Victoria at Hyde Park, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Monks Lane, Acton, near Nantwich, Cheshire, England

Plaque Acton Parish Church, near Nantwich, Cheshire

Sword, officers lambskin busby, powder horn at Royal Army Medical Corps Museum, Keogh Barracks, Ash Vale, Aldershot, Hampshire

P  Name on wife's headstone (Emily, died 07 April 1921) at Locksbrook Cemetery, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, Avon

P  Memorial plaque, National Arboretum, Staffordshire

By The Way…

Studied for his doctorate at St Andrews University

VC Held By

Royal Army Medical Corps Museum, Keogh Barracks, Mytchett Place Road, Ash Vale, Aldershot, Hampshire, England

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During an attack on the Redan he remained with an officer who was dangerously wounded, when all others had retreated. He also rallied the troops while in an exposed position. On another occasion, evacuating an advanced trench of wounded, whilst under heavy fire