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VC462 Edgar Thomas Inkson
BORN 5 April 1872
DIED 19 February 1947 AGE 74
VC Won 24 February 1900 AGE 27
Place VC Won Hart’s Hill, Colenso
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Edgar Thomas Inkson No.
VC Issue No. 462 Awards VC DSO
Regiment Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Colonel
Place Of Birth Naini Tal, India
Place Of Death St Richard's Hospital, Chicheter, West Sussex, England
Buried/Location Ashes Brookwood Cemetery, Cemetery Pales, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey
Cremated Woking Crematorium, Hermitage Road, St John's, Woking, Surrey, England
Date Buried/Cremated 26 February 1947
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Family Plot, Plot 74, Grave 211757
Gazetted 15 January 1901
VC Presented 13 May 1902 by King Edward VII at St James' Palace, Pall Mall, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Brookwood Cemetery, Cemetery Pales, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey
P Plaque at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffs
P Stone tablet, St Marys Church, East Lavant, West Sussex
By The Way…
Edgar Inkson, qualified as a doctor at University College Hospital, London
VC Held By
Royal Army Medical Corps Museum, Keogh Barracks, Mytchett Place Road, Ash Vale, Aldershot, Hampshire, England
