Edgar Thomas Inkson

Edgar Thomas Inkson VC, DSO (5 April 1872 - 19 February 1947) was a 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.

Details

He was 27 years old, and a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps, British Army, attached to The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers during the South African War (Boer War) when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 24 February 1900, at Hart's Hill, Colenso, South Africa, Lieutenant Inkson carried a young officer, who was severely wounded and unable to walk, for three or four hundred yards, under very heavy fire, to a place of safety.

Further information

He later achieved the rank of Colonel after serving in World War I.

The medal

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Army Medical Services Museum "(Aldershot, England)".

References

*Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
*The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)
*Victoria Crosses of the Anglo-Boer War (Ian Uys, 2000)

External links

* [http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/stewart/wokingcr.htm Location of grave and VC medal] "(Woking Crematorium)"
* [http://www.barmy.co.uk/ramc/inkson.htm Colonel E.T. Inkson]
* [http://www.tbcs.org.uk/vcs.htm The Brookwood Cemetery Society] "(Known Holders of the Victoria Cross Commemorated in Brookwood Cemetery)"