Name Alfred Spencer Heathcote No.Elected by Regiment
VC Issue No. 131 Awards VC
Regiment 60th Rifles
Later King's Royal Rifle Corps
Now 2nd Battalion The Rifles
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Colonel
Place Of Birth Winchester, England
Place Of Death Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
Buried/Location Ashes Bowral General Cemetery, Kangaloon Road, Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 20 January 1860
VC Presented 11 January 1861, Lieutenant-General Sir J Grant, China
Memorials
Headstone, Bowral General Cemetery, Kangaloon Road, Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
P Named on Kings Royal Rifle Corps memorial Winchester Cathedral
P Memorial plaque at St James Anglican Church, King Street, Sydney, Australia
By The Way…
He served the colours for 23 years
VC Held By
Victoria Barracks, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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