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VC148   Joseph Petrus Hendrick Crowe

BORN   12 January 1826

DIED   12 April 1876  AGE   50

VC Won  12 August 1857  AGE 31  

Place VC Won  Cawnpore

War/Campaign  The Indian Mutiny

Name   Joseph Petrus Hendrick Crowe   No.   

VC Issue No.   148   Awards   VC   

Regiment   78th Regiment

Later   Seaforth Highlanders

Now   4th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant-Colonel

Place Of Birth  Vermaak's Military Post, 34 Cuyler Street, Uitenhage, Cape Province,  South Africa

Place Of Death   Penge, London, England

Buried/Location Ashes  Uitenhage Moth Memorial Garden (Old Anglican Cemetery), Uitenhage, Cape Province, South Africa

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   05 February 1877

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   Grave 132/133

Gazetted   15 January 1858

VC Presented   

Memorials

Headstone, Uitenhage Moth Memorial Garden (Old Anglican Cemetery), Uitenhage, Cape Province, South Africa

Plaque at 34 Cuyler Street (place of birth), Uitenhage, Cape Province, South Africa (1970)

By The Way…

Originally buried at West Norwood Cemetery (Grave GM-15950), London, reburied in 1977 in South Africa after his overgrown grave was rediscovered by his great-grand-nephew Professor JFV Phillips

VC Held By

Destroyed in fire

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On 12th August 1857, he led a charge on a redoubt in an entrenched village whilst under heavy fire