Cornet William George Hawtrey Bankes : 91�Թ��, Aiming to capture all memorials in London

Person | Male Born 11/9/1836 Died 6/4/1858

Cornet William George Hawtrey Bankes

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Died as a result of serving in the Indian War 1857-8. HM 7th Hussars VC. Wikipedia gives his middle name as Hawtry.

Educated at Westminster School. Enlisted in the army in 1857. He was awarded the VC for "thrice charging a body of infuriated fanatics" on 19 March 1858 near Lucknow, during the Indian Rebellion.

His name appears on a . that page gives: "William George Hawtrey Bankes was awarded the Victoria Cross during the Indian Mutiny. He was the fifth son of George Bankes, government official who lived in a house near Poets' Corner, and was born on 11 September 1836 and educated at Westminster School and Cambridge university. He died at Lucknow 6 April 1858 from wounds received at Raptee. .... There is a memorial to him in Wimborne Minster, Dorset."

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Cornet William George Hawtrey Bankes

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Westminster School - old boys fallen in Crimean War & Indian Rebellion

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