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Lieutenant (later Captain) The Hon. Raymond Harvey Lodge Joseph de Montmorency VC, 21st Lancers (Empress of India’s)
9th July 2020Raymond de Montmorency was born on 5th February 1867 at Montreal, Canada. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant to D Squadron the 21st…
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Private Thomas Byrne VC, 21st Empress of India’s Lancers
9th July 2020Thomas Byrne was born on in December 1866 at St Thomas, Dublin, Ireland. He enlisted 8th Hussars at 20 years of age and was…
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Captain the Lord William Beresford VC, 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers
9th July 2020Lieutenant-Colonel Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford VC KCIE (20th July 1847 – 30th December 1900), was the third son of the Church…
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Sergeant Henry Hartigan VC, 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers
9th July 2020Henry Hartigan, March 1826 – 29 October 1886) was born in Drumlea, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 he was awarded…
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Lieutenant Alfred Stowell Jones VC, 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers
9th July 2020Alfred Stowell Jones was born at 3, Huskisson Street, Liverpool on 24th January 1832, the son of Archdeacon John Jones and his wife, Hannah,…
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Private Robert Newell VC, 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers
9th July 2020Robert Newell (1835-1858) was born in 1835 in Seaham, County Durham. At a young age, he enlisted with the 9th Lancers. Little is sadly…
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Troop Sergeant Major David Rushe VC, 9th (The Queen’s Royal) Lancers
9th July 2020David Rushe (1827-1886) was born in Woburn, Bedfordshire on 28th April 1827. He joined the 9th Lancers at the age of 18, taking part…
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Private William Goate VC, 9th (The Queen’s Royal) Lancers
9th July 2020William Goate (1836-1901) was born on 12th January 1836 in the Norfolk village of Fritton. His father, a farmer, died when William was 5…
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Lieutenant Frederick Brooks Dugdale VC, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
9th July 2020Born on 21st October 1877 at Burnley Lancashire, and educated at Marlborough and Christchurch College Oxford, Frederick Dugdale was the third son of Colonel…
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Troop Sergeant Major David Spence VC, 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers
9th July 2020David Spence (1818-1877) was born in Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland, to Robert Spence, a mason, and Agnes Anderson. David married Elspet Mathieson in 1835, when…