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VC479 Sir Neville Reginald Howse
BORN 26 October 1863
DIED 19 September 1930 AGE 66
VC Won 24 July 1900 AGE 36
Place VC Won Vredefort, Near Kroonstadf
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Sir Neville Reginald Howse No.
VC Issue No. 479 Awards VC KCB KCMG
Regiment New South Wales Medical Staff Corps, Australian Forces
Later
Now Royal Australian Army Medical Corps
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Stogursey, near Bridgewater, Somerset, England
Place Of Death In hospital, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, West London
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Square 14, Row 4, Grave 49245
Gazetted 4 June 1901
VC Presented 8 August 1902, Governor of New South Wales, Sir F Darling, Sydney, Australia
Memorials
P Headstone, Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road, West London
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Plaque in Soldier's Memorial Hall, Orange, NSW, Australia
Howse Street, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Memorial at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Monument, Byng Street, Robertson Park, Orange, NSW, Australia
Named on foundation stone, Bendick Murrell Memorial Hall, Bendick Murrell, NSW, Australia
Sir Neville Howse Stadium, Anzac Park, Seymour Street, Orange, NSW, Australia
Sir Neville Howse Place, off Lone Pine Avenue, Orange, NSW, Australia
By The Way…
First Australian to be awarded the VC
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
