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VC489 Alexis Charles Doxat
BORN 9 April 1867
DIED 29 November 1942 AGE 75
VC Won 20 October 1900 AGE 33
Place VC Won Near Zeerust
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Alexis Charles Doxat No.
VC Issue No. 489 Awards VC
Regiment Imperial Yeomanry, 3rd Battalion
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Major
Place Of Birth Surbiton, Surrey, England
Place Of Death Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes New Market Road Cemetery, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section AA, Grave 8154
Gazetted 15 January 1901
VC Presented 17 December 1901 by King Edward VII at Marlborugh House, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, New Market Road Cemetery, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
By The Way…
He left the London stock exchange to fight with the Yeomanry in South Africa
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
