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VC460 Francis Newton Parsons
BORN 23 March 1875
DIED 11 March 1900 AGE 24
VC Won 18 February 1900 AGE 24
Place VC Won Battle Of Paardeberg
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Francis Newton Parsons No.
VC Issue No. 460 Awards VC
Regiment Essex Regiment
Later
Now Royal Anglian Regiment
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Dover, Kent, England
Place Of Death Driefontein, Orange Free State, South Africa
Buried/Location Ashes Driefontein Cemetery (site of battle), north east of Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 20 November 1900
VC Presented No presentation
Memorials
Headstone, Driefontein Cemetery (site of battle), north east of Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
P Named on Boer War memorial, St Mary the Virgin, Cannon Street, Dover, Kent
Plaque, Essex Regimental Chapel, Eagel Way, Warley, Brentwood, Essex
P Named on memorial, Sandhurst Memorial Chapel, Camberley, Surrey
By The Way…
A nickname for the Essex Regiment was “the pompadours”
VC Held By
Essex Regiment Museum, Oaklands Park, Moulsham Street, Chelmsford, Essex, England
