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VC418 Viscount Alexander Edward Murray Fincastle
BORN 22 April 1871
DIED 29 January 1962 AGE 90
VC Won 17 August 1897 AGE 26
Place VC Won Nawa Kili, Upper Swat, India
War/Campaign Malakand Frontier War, India
Name Viscount Alexander Edward Murray Fincastle No.
VC Issue No. 418 Awards VC DSO MVO
Regiment 16th (Queen's) Lancers
Later Queens Royal Lancers
Now The Royal Lancers
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Major
Place Of Birth Portland Place, London, England
Place Of Death At his home, 22 Sussex Lodge, Sussex Place, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, Golders Green, Nth London
Cremated Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, London, England
Date Buried/Cremated 1 February 1962
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Crocus lawn, Section 4C
Gazetted 9 November 1897
VC Presented 28 February 1898, Queen Victoria, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Memorials
P Name on Victoria Cross memorial, Golders Green Crematorium, London
P Name on Victoria Cross memorial, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire
By The Way…
Later The Earl of Dunmore
Cremated under the name of Murray
VC Held By
Not known
