Harry Frederick Whitchurch
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Whitchurch was 28 years old, and a surgeon captain in the Indian Medical Service, Indian Army during the Chitral Expedition of 1895 of 1895 when, on 3 March, the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
Further information
He later achieved the rank of surgeon major and died from enteric fever.
The Medal
His VC is on display at the Lord Ashcroft collection in the Imperial War Museum, Chelsea, London.[1]
References
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- Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
- The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)
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- 1866 births
- 1907 deaths
- British recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Indian Medical Service officers
- British military personnel of the Chitral Expedition
- Military personnel from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- People from Kensington
- Infectious disease deaths in India
- Deaths from typhoid fever
- British military personnel of the Boxer Rebellion
- British military personnel of the Lushai Expedition
- British military personnel of the Malakand Frontier War