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VC112   George Forrest

BORN   1800

DIED   3 November 1859  AGE   59

VC Won  11 May 1857  AGE  57

Place VC Won  Delhi Magazine

War/Campaign  The Indian Mutiny

Name   George Forrest  No.   

VC Issue No.   112   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Bengal Veteran Establishment

Later   Disbanded

Now   

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career  Captain

Place Of Birth   St Michael's Parish, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland

Place Of Death   Dehra Dun, India

Buried/Location Ashes   Dehra Dun Cemetery, Uttarakhand, India

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone  Mausoleum    Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   18 June 1858

VC Presented  02 November 1858, Major Troup, Landour, India

Memorials

Mausoleum, Dehra Dun Cemetery, Uttarakhand, India

P  Named on Royal Artillery memorial, Woolwich, London

Named on tablet over the gateway at Delhi Magazine Memorial, Delhi, India


By The Way…

At the age of 57 he was an army pensioner


VC Held By

In private hands

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