Colonel Edgar Thomas Inkson VC

Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....

, DSO

Distinguished Service Order

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 (5 April 1872 - 19 February 1947) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross

Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....

, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British

United Kingdom

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 and Commonwealth

Commonwealth of Nations

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 forces.

Details

Inkson was 27 years old, and a Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 in the Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Army Medical Corps

The Royal Army Medical Corps is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace...

, British Army

British Army

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, attached to The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers during the Second Boer War

Second Boer War

The Second Boer War was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State...

 when the following deed took place on 24 February 1900, at Hart's Hill, Colenso

Colenso, KwaZulu-Natal

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, South Africa

South Africa

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 for which he was awarded the VC:

The medal

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Army Medical Services Museum

Army Medical Services Museum

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, Aldershot

Aldershot

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, England.

External links

• Location of grave and VC medal (Woking Crematorium)
• Colonel E.T. Inkson
• The Brookwood Cemetery Society (Known Holders of the Victoria Cross Commemorated in Brookwood Cemetery)