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VC221   Thomas James Young

BORN   1827

DIED   20 March 1869  AGE   41

VC Won  16 November 1857   AGE   30

Place VC Won  Shah Najaf Mosque, Lucknow

War/Campaign  The Indian Mutiny

Name   Thomas James Young   No.    

VC Issue No.   221   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Royal Navy, Naval Brigade

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Captain

Place Of Birth   Unknown

Place Of Death   Caen, Calvados, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Protestant Cemetery, Rue du Magazin a Poudre, Caen, Calvados, France

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   1 February 1859

VC Presented   08 June 1859 by Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Protestant Cemetery, Rue du Magazin a Poudre, Caen, Calvados, France

P  Named on wife's & daughter's headstone at Orario Cimitero Capoluogo, Campo Inglese, Alassio, Italy

By The Way…

Brother-in-law of (321) Duncan Gordon Boyes VC

VC Held By

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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