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VC490 Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn
BORN 19 November 1867
DIED 12 July 1913 AGE 45
VC Won 7 November 1900 AGE 32
Place VC Won Komati River Action
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn No.
VC Issue No. 490 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Canadian Dragoons
Later
Now Royal Canadian Dragoons
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Major
Place Of Birth Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Place Of Death At his ranch, Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada
Buried/Location Ashes St James Cemetery, Parliament Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Hill A, Section S 1/2, Lot 11
Gazetted 23 April 1901
VC Presented 11 October 1901, Duke of York (later King George V), Toronto, Canada
Memorials
P Headstone, St James Cemetery, Parliament Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
P Named on family headstone at St James's Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
By The Way…
He died in a riding accident on his ranch in Saskatchewan, not Alberta as it says on his grave
VC Held By
Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (on loan from Upper Canada College, Toronto)
