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VC451 Horace Robert Matineau
BORN 31 October 1874
DIED 7 April 1916 AGE 41
VC Won 26 December 1899 AGE 25
Place VC Won Game Tree, near Mafeking
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Horace Robert Martineau No.
VC Issue No. 451 Awards VC
Regiment South African Forces, Protectorate Regiment (North West Cape Colony)
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Bayswater, London, England
Place Of Death Dunedin, New Zealand
Buried/Location Ashes Andersons Bay Soldiers' Cemetery, Tomahawk Road, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 9 April 1916
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Returned Serviceman's Area, Block 73, Lot 16
Gazetted 6 July 1900
VC Presented 11 December 1900, Commander in Chief South Africa, Lord Roberts VC, Cape Town, South Africa
Memorials
Headstone, Andersons Bay Soldiers' Cemetery, Tomahawk Road, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
P Named on family grave at Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey
P Named on War Memorial, Clifton College, Bristol
By The Way…
He served as a Lieutenant with the ANZAC Transport Service at Suez and Gallipoli during the First World War
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
