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VC475 Charles Burley Ward
BORN 10 July 1877
DIED 30 December 1921 AGE 44
VC Won 26 June 1900 AGE 22
Place VC Won Lindley
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Charles Burley Ward No. 5480
VC Issue No. 475 Awards VC
Regiment King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Later Light Infantry
Now 3rd and 5th Battalions The Rifles
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Company Sergeant-Major
Place Of Birth 5 Tulip Street, Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Place Of Death Glamorgan County Asylum, Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales
Buried/Location Ashes St Mary's Churchyard, Church Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 2 January 1922
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section B, Row 2, Grave 8/4
Gazetted 28 September 1900
VC Presented 15 December 1900, Queen Victoria, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Memorials
P Headstone, St Mary's Churchyard, Church Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales
P Named on Victoria Cross memorial, outside Leeds City Art Gallery, Cetenary Square, Leeds, Yorkshire
By The Way…
He was the last recipient to be awarded the VC by Queen Victoria
His headstone was erected 1986, it shows age as 45
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