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VC443 Sir Ernest Beechcroft Beckwith Towse
BORN 23 April 1864
DIED 21 June 1948 AGE 84
VC Won 11 December 1899 & 30 April 1900 AGE 35
Place VC Won Battle of Magersfontein and Mount Thapa
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Sir Ernest beechcroft Beckwith Towse No.
VC Issue No. 443 Awards VC KCVO CBE
Regiment Gordon Highlanders
Later The Highlanders
Now 4th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Regents Park, London, England
Place Of Death Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Parish Curch of St Thomas of Canterbury Churchyard, Manor Road, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 6 July 1900
VC Presented Queen Victoria
Memorials
P Headstone, Parish Curch of St Thomas of Canterbury Churchyard, Manor Road, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
P Named on oak panel, Victoria Cross memorial, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
P Named on wall, Victoria Cross memorial, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire
By The Way…
Loosing his sight in action, he spent the rest of his life campaigning and raising money for blind associations
VC Held By
Gordon Highlanders Museum, St Luke's, Viewfield Road, Aberdeen, Scotland
Thank you to Jill Shepherd, librarian and archivist at Wellington College
