Second Lieutenant Sidney Clayton Woodroffe VC - 8th Bn, The Rifle Brigade


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IN THE COUNTY OF : TYNE & WEAR

Name Edward,
JENNINGS
Edward,
LAWSON


Rank Rough-Rider Private

Force Bengal Artillery The Gordon Highlanders

VC won Relief of Lucknow, Indian Mutiny,
14-22 November 1857 *
Tirah Campaign, India,
20 October 1897


London Gaz 24 December 1858 20 May 1898

Born Ballinrobe, Co Mayo, Ireland,
1820
Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
11 April 1873


Died 10 May 1889
North Shields
2 July 1955,
Walker


Grave Preston Cemetery, North Shields
( headstone erected 1997 )
Heaton Cemetery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
( headstone erected 1999 )


Location
of VC
'F' Battery, Royal Artillery Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen

Remarks * Elected by the regiment None

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