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Person    | Male  Born 19/4/1856  Died 28/6/1918

James Collis, VC

Categories: Armed Forces

Countries: Afghanistan

War served, Other war i

Commemorated on a memorial as having served in, and survived, a war, not WW1 or WW2.

James Collis, VC

Gunner in the Royal Horse Artillery. Awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during the retreat from Maiwand to Kandahar in the Second Anglo-Afghan War on 28th July 1880.

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