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BORN 12 November 1871
DIED 8 July 1956 AGE 84
VC Won 2 June 1900 AGE 28
Place VC Won Delagoa Bay Railway
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Frank Howard Kirby No.
VC Issue No. 474 Awards VC CBE DCM
Regiment Corps of Royal Engineers
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Corporal
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Thame, Oxfordshire, England
Place Of Death At his home, 3 Crescent Road, Sidcup, Kent, England
Buried/Location Ashes South London Crematoirum, Rowan Road, Streatham, South London
Cremated South London Crematoirum, Rowan Road, Streatham, London, England
Date Buried/Cremated 11 July 1956
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Section Q-69, Main Garden (now The Loggia Garden)
Gazetted 5 October 1900
VC Presented 19 August 1901, Duke of York (later King George V), Cape Town, South Africa
Memorials
P Named on 'For Valour' board at the Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent
P Memorial tablet at St Barbaras, Chatham Garrison Church, Kent
By The Way…
He was one of the first pupils at Alleyns School, Dulwich, London
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
