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VC450 George Edward Nurse
BORN 14 April 1873
DIED 25 November 1945 AGE 72
VC Won 15 December 1899 AGE 26
Place VC Won Battle of Colenso
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name George Edward Nurse No.
VC Issue No. 450 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Field Artillery, 66 Battery
Later
Now Royal Regiment of Artillery
Rank VC Won Corporal
Rank End Of Career Second Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Place Of Death Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool, Lancashire
Buried/Location Ashes Allerton Cemetery, Springwood Avenue, Liverpool, Merseyside
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Church of England Section 2-G, Grave 608
Gazetted 2 February 1900
VC Presented 4 March 1900, Lieutenant-General Sir G Butler, Ladysmith, South Africa
Memorials
P Headstone, Allerton Cemetery, Springwood Avenue, Liverpool, Merseyside
P Named on memorial at Royal Artillery Chapel, Woolwich, London
By The Way…
A headstone was erected 1989
VC Held By
Royal Artillery Regiment Museum, Old Royal Military Academy, Red Lion Lane, Woolwich, London, England
