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VC486 Guy George Egerton Wylly
BORN 17 February 1880
DIED 9 January 1962 AGE 81
VC Won 1 September 1900 AGE 20
Place VC Won Warm Bad, Near Pretoria
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Guy George Egerton Wylly No.
VC Issue No. 486 Awards VC CB DSO
Regiment Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Colonel
Place Of Birth Hobart, Tasmania
Place Of Death At his home, 'Mount Joie', London Road, Camberley, Surrey, England
Buried/Location Ashes Woking Crematorium, Hermitage Road, St John's, Woking, Surrey
Cremated Woking Crematorium, Hermitage Road, St John's, Woking, Surrey
Date Buried/Cremated 13 January 1962
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Centre of Tennyson Lake Garden, Garden of Remembrance
Gazetted 23 November 1900
VC Presented 25 July 1901 by King Edward VII at St James' Palace, Pall Mall, London, England
Memorials
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Plaque at Quetta Staff College, Balochistan, Pakistan
Named on the cenotaph, Hobart, Tasmania
Plaque at the Hutching School, Hobart, Tasmania
By The Way…
During his military career he was aide-de-camp to the Commander in Chief of India and later to King George V
VC Held By
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
