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BORN 28 September 1869
DIED 14 January 1930 AGE 60
VC Won 1 September 1900 AGE 30
Place VC Won Warm Bad, Near Pretoria
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name John Hutton Bisdee No.
VC Issue No. 487 Awards VC OBE
Regiment Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Trooper
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Hutton Park, Tasmania
Place Of Death Tranquility, near Melton Mowbray, Tasmania, Australia
Buried/Location Ashes St James Churchyard, Jericho to Hobart Road, near Jericho River bridge, Tranqulity, near Melton Mowbray, Tasmania, Australia
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 13 November 1900
VC Presented 1902, Governor of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Memorials
P Headstone, St James Churchyard, Jericho to Hobart Road, near Jericho River bridge, Tranqulity, near Melton Mowbray, Tasmania, Australia
P Plaque in St James Churchyard, Tranquility, Tasmania, Australia
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Plaque, Garden of Remebrance, Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth, Western Australia
Name on cenotaph, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Plaque at Hutching School, Nelson Road, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
By The Way…
The grave was refurbished in 2003
Bisdee Prize, annual award at St Virgil's College, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
VC Held By
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
