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VC246 William George Hawtry Bankes
BORN 11 September 1836
DIED 6 April 1858 AGE 21
VC Won 19 March 1858 AGE 21
Place VC Won Moosa Bagh, Lucknow
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name William George Hawtry Bankes No.
VC Issue No. 246 Awards VC
Regiment 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars
Later 7th Queen's Own Hussars
Now Queen's Royal Hussars
Rank VC Won Cornet
Rank End Of Career Cornet
Place Of Birth 'Sheen Elms', East Sheen, London, England
Place Of Death Trucknelo, Lucknow, India
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, presumably buried within the old Cantonments, Lucknow, India
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 24 December 1858
VC Presented Registered post to his mother on the 25 December 1858
Memorials
P Plaque at the Minster Church of St Cuthburga, Wimborne, Dorset
P Memorial window at St Nicholas' Church, Studland, near Swanage, Dorset
P Named on family vault in St Nicholas' Churchyard, Studland, near Swanage, Dorset
By The Way…
He hung on to life for eighteen days after his VC action having suffered horrendous sword wounds
VC Held By
Regimental Museum of the Queen's Own Hussars, The Lord Leycester Hospital, High Street, Warwick, Warwickshire, England
