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BORN 1821
DIED 3 August 1881 AGE 60
VC Won 11 February 1864 AGE 43
Place VC Won Mangapiko River, New Zealand
War/Campaign Waikato-Hauhau Maori War
Name Charles Heaphy No.
VC Issue No. 315 Awards VC
Regiment New Zealand Military Forces, Auckland Militia
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Major
Rank End Of Career Major
Place Of Birth St John's Wood, London, England
Place Of Death At his home, Ann Street, Toowong, near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Buried/Location Ashes Toowong Cemetery, Birdswood Terrace, Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Portion 1, Section 5, AL/34, 8th Avenue, Grave 252
Gazetted 8 February 1867
VC Presented 11 May 1867, GOC New Zealand, Major-General Sir T Chute, Auckland, New Zealand
Memorials
Headstone, Toowong Cemetery, Birdswood Terrace, Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Heaphy River, Heaphy Track & Heaphy Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand
Heaphy Street, Green Meadows, Napier, NI, New Zealand
Heaphy Street, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland, New Zealand
Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queens Gardens, Dunedin, south Island, New Zealand
By The Way…
First New Zealander to be awarded the VC
Better known in New Zealand as naturalist and explorer
VC Held By
Auckland Institute & Museum, New Zealand
