Place Of Birth Forres House, Forres, Grampian, Scotland
Place Of Death St Mary's Barracks, Brecknock, Powys, Wales
Buried/Location Ashes Brecon Cathedral Churchyard, Priory Hill, Powys, Wales
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. North east corner
Gazetted 24 February 1857
VC Presented 26 June 1857 by Queen Victoria at Hyde Park, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Brecon Cathedral Churchyard, Priory Hill, Powys, Wales
P Named on wife's headstone (Letitia, died 16 November 1890) at Locksbrook Cemetery, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, Somerset
Display at the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum, Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery, St Faith's Street, Maidstone, Kent
By The Way…
Shot himself in the head, dying some hours later
VC Held By
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum, Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery, St Faith's Street, Maidstone, Kent, England
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During an attack on the Redan on 8th September 1855, he was one of the first inside the defences where he engaged 3 Russian gunners, shooting 2 of them with his revolver. He then proceeded to rally his men until being shot in the mouth put him out of action
