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VC80   William Hope

BORN   12 April 1834

DIED   17 December 1909  AGE   75

VC Won  18 June 1855  AGE  21

Place VC Won  Sebastopol, Crimea

War/Campaign  Crimean War

Name   William Hope  No.   

VC Issue No.   80   Awards   VC    

Regiment   7th Regiment

Later   Royal Fusiliers

Now   Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Colonel

Place Of Birth   Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

Place Of Death   At a nursing home, Chelsea, London, England

Buried/Location Ashes  Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Road, West Brompton, London, England

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   Compartment E, family plot

Gazetted   05 May 1857

VC Presented   26 June 1857 by Queen Victoria at Hyde Park, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Brompton Cemetery, Old Brompton Road, West Brompton, London, England

P  Blue plaque on Bowels Pavillion, Parsloes Park, Dagenham

Painting at Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (City of London) Museum, H M Tower of London, London

By The Way…

Invented the shrapnell shell for rifled guns

VC Held By

Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (City of London) Museum, H M Tower of London, London, England

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After an attack on the Redan he realised a lieutenant was lying wounded outside the trenches. Hope went to rescue him, but he was too badly injured to move. He then went back to the trenches to fetch a stretcher and bought him in, all the while under heavy fire