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VC164 Herbert Taylor Reade
BORN 2 September 1828
DIED 23 June 1897 AGE 68
VC Won 14 September 1857 AGE 28
Place VC Won Siege of Delhi
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name Herbert Taylor Reade No.
VC Issue No. 164 Awards VC CB
Regiment 61st Regiment
Later Gloucestershire Regiment
Now 1st Battalion The Rifles
Rank VC Won Surgeon
Rank End Of Career Surgeon-General
Place Of Birth Perth, Upper Ontario, Canada
Place Of Death Sunnylands, Surrey Park Gardens, Bath, Somerset, England
Buried/Location Ashes Locksbrook Cemetery, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, Somerset, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Plot H, Grave 1687
Gazetted 5 February 1861
VC Presented July 1862, Governor of Jersey, Major-General Sir R Douglas
Memorials
P Headstone, Locksbrook Cemetery, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, Somerset, England
Memorial plaque at Royal Canadian Legion, Beckwith Street East, Perth, Ontario, Canada
P Plaque National Memorial Arboretum, Alrews, Staffordshire
By The Way…
After he left the forces he became surgeon to Queen Victoria
VC Held By
Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, Custom House, Gloucester Docks, Gloucester
