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VC515   Sir Alexander Stanhope Cobbe

BORN   5 June 1870

DIED   29 June 1931  AGE   61

VC Won   6 October 1902   AGE   32

Place VC Won   Erego

War/Campaign  Somaliland

Name   Sir Alexander Stanhope Cobbe  No.   

VC Issue No.   515   Awards   VC      GCB   KCSI   DSO

Regiment   Indian Army attached to the King's African Rifles

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Captain

Rank End Of Career   General

Place Of Birth   Naini Tal, India

Place Of Death   Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, England

Buried/Location Ashes   St Peter's Churchyard, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, England

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   20 January 1903

VC Presented   22 February 1903, Major-General W Manning, Obbia, Somaliland

Memorials

P  Headstone, St Peter's Churchyard, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, England

P  Plaque on north wall inside Brecon Cathedral, Brecon, Powys, Wales

P  Named on Victoria Cross memorial, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire

P  Named on Victoria Cross oak panel memorial, Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire

By The Way…

He was Aide de Camp to King George V in 1912

VC Held By

South Wales Borderers and Monmouthshire Regiment Museum of the Royal Regiment of Wales, The Barracks, Brecon, Powys, Wales

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