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VC51   Sir Wilbraham Oates Lennox

BORN  4 August 1830

DIED   7 February 1897  AGE   67

VC Won  20 November 1854  AGE 24

Place VC Won  Sebastopol, Crimea

War/Campaign  Crimean War

Name   Sir Wilbraham Oates Lennox   No.   

VC Issue No.   51   Awards   VC    KCB

Regiment   Corps of Royal Engineers

Later   

Now   Royal Engineers

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant-General

Place Of Birth   Molecomb House, Goodwood, Sussex, England

Place Of Death   Chester Square, London, England

Buried/Location Ashes  Lewes Road Cemetery, Central Valley, Lewes Road, Brighton, Sussex, England

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   Plot FF, Grave 47/48/49, family vault

Gazetted   24 February 1857

VC Presented   1857 by GOC Hong Kong, Lieutenant-General T Ashburnham in Hong Kong

Memorials

P  Headstone, Lewes Road Cemetery, Central Valley, Lewes Road, Brighton, Sussex, England

P  Locomotive nameplate at the Museum of Army Transport, Flemingate, Beverley, North Humberside (duplicate at Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent)

P  Lennox Row, Wood Street, Chatham, Kent

P  Named on 'For Valour' board at the Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent

Named on third son's headstone at Lewes Road Cemetery, Central Valley, Lewes Road, Brighton, Sussex

By The Way…

After joining the Royal Engineers, he was posted to Ceylon, where he hunted and shot 100 elephants.

VC Held By

Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent, England

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