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VC296   Arthur Thomas Moore

BORN   20 September 1830

DIED   25 April 1923  AGE   93

VC Won  8 February 1857   AGE   26

Place VC Won   Khoosh-ab, Persia

War/Campaign  The Persian War

Name   Arthur Thomas Moore   No.    

VC Issue No.   296   Awards   VC   CB

Regiment   3rd Bombay Light Cavalry

Later   33rd Queen Victoria’s Own Light Cavalry

Now   The Poona Horse Indian Army

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Major-General

Place Of Birth   Carlingford, Co. Louth, Ireland

Place Of Death   18 Waterloo Place, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland

Buried/Location Ashes   Mount Jerome Cemetery, Mount Argus Road, Harold's Cross, Dublin, Eire

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   Section C156, Grave 14036, adjacent to the Low Walk

Gazetted   3 August 1860

VC Presented   18 October 1861, GOC Bombay, Lieutenant-General Sir W Mansfield, Aurugabor Bde, India

Memorials

P  Headstone, Mount Jerome Cemetery, Mount Argus Road, Harold's Cross, Dublin, Eire

P  Named on sons grave at Littleham Cemetery, near Exmouth, Devon


By The Way…

His Victoria Cross was sold for £150,000 in 2004.


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