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VC770   Edward Elers Delaval Henderson

Name   Edward Elers Delaval Henderson   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   770   Awards   VC   

Regiment   North Staffordshire Regiment attached to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Commanding 9th Battalion

Later   Staffordshire Regiment

Now   3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment - Disbanded July 2012

Rank VC Won   Temporary Lieutenant Colonel

Rank End Of Career   Temporary Lieutenant Colonel

Place Of Birth   Simla, India

Place Of Death   West bank of the River Hai, south-west of Kut, Mesopotamia (now Iraq)

Buried/Location Ashes   Amara War Cemetery, 150 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC) removed   Plot/Grave no.   Plot XXIV, Row B, Grave 31

Gazetted   8 June 1917

VC Presented   20 October 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his widow

Memorials

Named on War Memorial, Amara War Cemetery, Sth of Baghdad, Iraq

P  Oak Memorial Panel, Garrison Church of St George, Whittington Barracks, Tamworth Road, Lichfield, Staffordshire

P  Named on Regimental Victoria Cross Memorial, Garrison Church of St George, Whittington Barracks, Tamworth Road, Lichfield, Staffordshire

P  Henderson Close, Lichfield, Staffordshire

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

By The Way…

In 1933 all headstones were removed due to deterioration from the salt in the soil, later all men known to have been buried in the cemetery were commemorated on the Memorial Wall

VC Held By

The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M

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BORN   2 October 1878

DIED   25 January 1917   AGE   38

VC Won   25 January 1917   AGE   38

Place VC Won   West bank of the River Hai, south-west of Kut, Mesopotamia (now Iraq)

War/Campaign   First World War 1917