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VC481 Brian Turner Tom Lawrence
BORN 9 November 1873
DIED 7 June 1949 AGE 75
VC Won 7 August 1900 AGE 26
Place VC Won Essenbosch Farm
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Brian Turner Tom Lawrence No.
VC Issue No. 481 Awards VC
Regiment 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers
Later Queens Royal Lancers
Now The Royal Lancers
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Bewdley, Worcestershire, England
Place Of Death Nakuru, Kenya
Buried/Location Ashes Nakura Crematorium, Nakuru, Nakuru State, Kenya, Africa
Cremated Nakura Crematorium, Nakuru, Nakuru State, Kenya, Africa
Date Buried/Cremated 8 June 1949
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 15 January 1901
VC Presented 12 August 1902, King Edward VII, London, England
Memorials
P Name on honours board at his old school, now Kidderminster registry office, Bewdley Road, Kidderminster, Worcestershire
P Named on Victoria Cross memorial, Royal Navy & Royal Albert Yacht Club, Pembroke Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire
P Victoria Cross and George Cross Memorial Stone, Wandsworth Town Hall, Wandsworth, South London
By The Way…
Represented England at the International Horse Show and also won a silver medal as part of the British Equestrian team at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
