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VC449 The Hon. Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts
BORN 8 January 1872
DIED 17 December 1899 AGE 27
VC Won 15 December 1899 AGE 27
Place VC Won Battle of Colenso
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name The Hon. Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 449 Awards VC
Regiment King's Royal Rifle Corps
Later Royal Green Jackets
Now 2nd and 4th Battalions The Rifles
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Umballa, India
Place Of Death Chieveley, Natal, South Africa
Buried/Location Ashes Chieveley War Cemetery, Chieveley , R74, South of Colenso, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 2 February 1900
VC Presented 1900 by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, to his father
Memorials
Headstone, Chieveley War Cemetery, Chieveley , R74, South of Colenso, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
P Memorial, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire
P Named on mothers headstone, Priory Road Cemetery, Ascot, Berkshire
Cairn & memorial stone (originally at site of action), Coulson Garden of Remembrance, South Africa
P Named on lectern, Sandhurst Memorial Chapel, Camberley, Surrey
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire
P Brass memorial, Luptons Tower, Eaton College, Windsor, Berkshire
Named on Boer War Memorial, Eaton College, Windsor, Berkshire
By The Way…
Son of (231) Frederick Sleigh Roberts (later Earl Roberts VC)
VC Held By
National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, England
