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VC358 William St. Lucien Chase
BORN 2 July 1856
DIED 24 June 1908 AGE 51
VC Won 16 August 1880 AGE 24
Place VC Won Deh Khoja
War/Campaign Second Afghan War, Afghanistan
Name William St. Lucien Chase No.
VC Issue No. 358 Awards VC CB
Regiment Indian Army, 28th Native Infantry
Later 128th pioneers
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Colonel
Place Of Birth St Lucia, West Indies
Place Of Death Quetta, Baluchistan, North West Pakistan
Buried/Location Ashes English Cemetery, Quetta Cemetery, Quetta, Balochistan Province, Pakistan
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 7 October 1881
VC Presented 23 January 1882, GOC Bombay, Poona, India
Memorials
Headstone, English Cemetery, Quetta Cemetery, Quetta, Balochistan Province, Pakistan
By The Way…
The VC belonging to William Chase was donated to the Army Museum of Western Australia by his family
VC Held By
Army Museum of Western Australia, Fremantle, Australia
