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VC452 Horace Edward Ramsden
BORN 15 December 1878
DIED 3 August 1948 AGE 69
VC Won 26 December 1899 AGE 21
Place VC Won Game Tree, near Mafeking
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Horace Edward Ramsden No.
VC Issue No. 452 Awards VC
Regiment South African Forces, Protectorate Regiment (North West Cape Colony)
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Trooper
Rank End Of Career Trooper
Place Of Birth Chester, Cheshire, England
Place Of Death Avenue Hotel, Fish Hoek, near Simonstown, Cape Colony, South Africa
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, South Africa
Cremated Maitland Crematorium, Woltemade, Cape Town, South Africa
Date Buried/Cremated 5 August 1948
Headstone Ashes removed Plot/Grave no. Removed by undertaker
Gazetted 6 July 1900
VC Presented 28 October 1900 by Commander in Chief, South Africa, Lord Roberts VC during a tour of inspection in Pretoria, South Africa
