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VC208 Alfred Kirke Ffrench
BORN 25 February 1835
DIED 29 December 1872 AGE 37
VC Won 16 November 1857 AGE 22
Place VC Won Secundra Bagh, Lucknow
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name Alfred Kirke Ffrench No. ELECTED BY REGIMENT
VC Issue No. 208 Awards VC
Regiment 53rd Regiment
Later King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Now 3rd and 5th Battlions The Rifles
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Meerut, India
Place Of Death Manor House, Chiswick, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Road, West Brompton, London, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 04 January 1873
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Compartment AD, Grave 69995
Gazetted 24 December 1858
VC Presented -
Memorials
P Headstone, Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Road, West Brompton, London
P Plaque at St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
P Named on V.C. Honours board, Hounslow Civic Centre, West London
By The Way…
The Secundra Bagh, was a villa with a garden wall used as a defensive position by the mutineers.
VC Held By
King's Shropshire Light Infantry Museum, The Castle, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
