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VC151   Henry George Gore-Browne

BORN   30 September 1830

DIED   15 November 1912  AGE   82

VC Won  21 August 1857  AGE   27

Place VC Won  Lucknow, India

War/Campaign  The Indian Mutiny

Name   Henry George Gore-Browne   No.   

VC Issue No.   151   Awards   VC   

Regiment   32nd Regiment

Later   Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Now   3rd & 5th Battalions The Rifles

Rank VC Won   Captain

Rank End Of Career   Colonel

Place Of Birth   Newtown, Co. Roscommon, Ireland

Place Of Death   Shanklin, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England

Buried/Location Ashes  St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Brook, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   20 June 1862

VC Presented   July 1862, Governor of Gibraltar, Lieutenant-General Sir W Codrington, Gibraltar

Memorials

P  Headstone, St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Brook, Isle of Wight, Hampshire

P  Named on grandson's headstone at St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Brook, Isle of Wight, Hampshire

By The Way…

Great-grandson of Arthur Browne, in whose arms Wolfe died at Quebec

VC Held By

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum, The Keep, Bodmin, Cornwall, England

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