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VC466   Horace Henry Glasock

BORN  16 October 1880

DIED   20 October 1916   AGE   36

VC Won   31 March 1900   AGE   19

Place VC Won   Korn Spruit, Sanna’s Post

War/Campaign  The Second Boer War

Name   Horace Henry Glasock  No.      Elected By Regiment

VC Issue No.   466   Awards   VC  

Regiment   Royal Horse Artillery, 'Q' Battery

Later   

Now   Royal Regiment of Artillery

Rank VC Won   Driver

Rank End Of Career   Driver

Place Of Birth   Islington, London, England

Place Of Death   Cape Town, South Africa

Buried/Location Ashes   Maitland Road No. 4 Cemetery, Voortrekker Road, Maitland, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   21 October 1916

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   26 June 1900

VC Presented   15 December 1900, Queen Victoria, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England

Memorials

Headstone, Maitland Road No. 4 Cemetery, Voortrekker Road, Maitland, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

P  Named on memorial at Royal Artillery Chapel, Woolwich, London


By The Way…

He is buried under name of Henry Horrace Glassock with H H Glasock on headstone

Headstone erected 1965


VC Held By

The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M

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