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VC272 Clement Walker-Heaneage
BORN 6 March 1831
DIED 9 December 1901 AGE 70
VC Won 17 June 1858 AGE 27
Place VC Won Gwalior
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name Clement Walker-Heaneage No. ELECTED BY REGIMENT
VC Issue No. 272 Awards VC
Regiment 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars
Later
Now Queen's Royal Hussars
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Compton Bassett, Wiltshire, England
Place Of Death Compton Bassett, Wiltshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes St Swithins Parish Church, Compton Bassett, Wiltshire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Vault Plot/Grave no. Beneath aisle in church
Gazetted 26 January 1859
VC Presented 18 June 1859, GOC Bombay, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Somerset, India
Memorials
P Vault, St Swithins Parish Church, Compton Bassett, Wiltshire
P Featured in a VC display at the Royal British Legion, Endless Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire
P Named on Victoria Cross memorial, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire
P Two memorial windows in St Swithins Parish Church, Compton Bassett, Wiltshire
By The Way…
Later known and named on headstone as Walker-Heneage
VC Held By
Not known
