James Champion
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". James Champion VC MSM (1834 – 4 May 1904) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Details
Champion was approximately 24 years old, and a Troop Sergeant-Major in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 8 September 1858 at Beejapore, India, for which he was awarded the VC: Template:Quote
He later joined the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars.[1]
The medal
The medal is displayed at Eastbourne Redoubt Fortress Museum, Royal Parade, Eastbourne, East Sussex
References
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- Location of grave and VC medal (W. London)
External links
- http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/puchampi.htm
- Redoubt Fortress Museum
- Eastbourne Redoubt
- http://www.marshallfamilytree.uk – information on James Champion as he is my great-great-grandfather!
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- 1834 births
- 1904 deaths
- British recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross
- 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars soldiers
- British Army personnel of the Crimean War
- Military personnel from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
- People from Hammersmith
- British Yeomanry soldiers
- British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Royal Gloucestershire Hussars soldiers
- Recipients of the Meritorious Service Medal (United Kingdom)