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VC412 Harry Frederick Whitchurch
BORN 22 September 1866
DIED 16 August 1907 AGE 40
VC Won 3 March 1895 AGE 28
Place VC Won Chitral Fort, India
War/Campaign North West Frontier
Name Harry Frederick Whitchurch No.
VC Issue No. 412 Awards VC
Regiment Indian Medical Service
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Surgeon Captain
Rank End Of Career Surgeon Major
Place Of Birth Sandown, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
Place Of Death Dharmsala, Punjab, India
Buried/Location Ashes Dharmsala Churchyard, Dharamsala, Himachel Pradesh, India
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 17 August 1907
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 16 July 1895
VC Presented 27 July 1895 by Queen Victoria at Osborne House, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
Memorials
Headstone, Dharmsala Churchyard, Dharamsala, Himachel Pradesh, India
Brass plaque at the Cathedral of the Resurrection, Lahore, Pakistan
By The Way…
Harry Whitchurch died in august 1907 from enteric fever better known as typhoid
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
