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Lord Chelmsford Said .Buller is ‘one of the finest soldiers of the century’, so modest and reticent –that it was difficult to say for what individual deed he had got the Victoria Cross as he had been doing acts worthy of it all along the line
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Subject: 1373 Pte Alfred Henry Hook VC. Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:06 pm
Private. 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment.
Born on 6th August 1850
Died on 12th March 1905 from pulmonary tuberculosis at Osborne Villas, Roseberry Ave.Gloucester.
His grave is in St. Andrew's Church Yard, Churcham, Gloucestershire.
His gravestone is a Cross mounted on a plinth surmounted with a laurel wreath, in the centre of which is engraved, the Victoria Cross.
1373 Pte Alfred Henry Hook VC, Died 12th March 1905, Buried St Andrews Churchyard, Churcham, Gloucesterhire. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
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Subject: Re: 1373 Pte Alfred Henry Hook VC. Sat May 29, 2010 9:31 am
Pte. A. Hook V.C. 'B' Coy 2nd Btn 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment, wounded at the Defence of Rorke's Drift - Memorial Plaque. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
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Subject: Re: 1373 Pte Alfred Henry Hook VC. Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:08 pm
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] Pte. A. Hook VC 'B' Coy 2nd Btn 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment, wounded at the Defence of Rorke's Drift - Victoria Cross Memorial (Union Jack Club, London)
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Subject: Re: 1373 Pte Alfred Henry Hook VC. Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:09 pm
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] Pte. A. Hook VC 'B' Coy 2nd Btn 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment, wounded at the Defence of Rorke's Drift (Churcham)
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Subject: Re: 1373 Pte Alfred Henry Hook VC. Mon Jun 17, 2019 9:17 am
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] Newly erected plaque to Hook VC at his house in Kilcot, Gloucestershire. Photo By Tim Needham.
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