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VC249 Aylmer Spicer Cameron
BORN 12 August 1833
DIED 10 June 1909 AGE 75
VC Won 30 March 1858 AGE 24
Place VC Won Kotah
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name Aylmer Spicer Cameron No.
VC Issue No. 249 Awards VC CB
Regiment 72nd Regiment, 1st Battalion
Later Seaforth Highlanders
Now 4th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Colonel
Place Of Birth Hampshire, England
Place Of Death At his home, 'Alvara House', Village Road, Alverstoke, Hampshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Parish Church of St Marks Churchyard, Hinton Wood Avenue, Highcliffe, Christchurch, Dorset, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 11 November 1859
VC Presented 09 November 1860 by Queen Victoria at Home Park, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Parish Church of St Marks Churchyard, Hinton Wood Avenue, Highcliffe, Christchurch, Dorset
By The Way…
He was commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in the 1880s.
VC Held By
Highlanders Regiment Museum, Fort George, Inverness, Highlands, Scotland
