Harry Frederick Whitchurch
Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox military person Harry Frederick Whitchurch Template:Post-nominals (22 September 1866 – 16 August 1907) 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.
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.<ref name="Ashcroft">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
References
- Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
- The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)
External links
- 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