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• Brown, Peter    b. 1837  d. September 10, 1894
  Basuto War Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Sweden, he served as a Trooper in the Cape Mounted Rifles, Colonial Forces. During the assault on Moirosi's Mountain, South Africa, on April 8, 1879, Trooper Brown spent all day carrying water to his wounded comrades who were lying under rocks where they had taken shelter. He did this within 200 yards of the enemy who were firing from redoubts up the sides of the mountain and he continued even though he was severely wounded. For gallantry in the face...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Woltemade Cemetery, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
   
• Glasock, Horace Henry    b. October 16, 1880  d. October 20, 1916
  2nd Boer War Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in London, England, he served as a Driver in Q Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, British Army. In actions at Korn Spruit South Africa, on March 31, 1900, a British force including two batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery, was retiring from Thabanchu towards Bloemfontein when the enemy formed an ambush. When the alarm was given that the guns and their limbers to be run back by hand to a safe place, Driver Glasock with two comrades succeeded in running...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Maitland Cemetery, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
   
• McCann, Rev. Owen    b. June 29, 1907  d. March 26, 1994
  South African religious leader and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. A native of Woodstock, near Cape Town, he studied first at Saint Joseph College, in Rodenbosch, then at the University of Cape Town, and finally at the Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum "De Propaganda Fide," in Rome. He was ordained, on December 21, 1935, in Cape Town. From 1940 to 1948, he was editor of “The Southern Cross”, then he did pastoral work in Cape Town, until his election as titular bishop of Stettorio and his...[Read More] (Bio by: Guy Gagnon)
  Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  Plot: Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt Chapel
   
• Ramsden, Horace Edward   b. December 15, 1878  d. August 3, 1948
  Second Boer War Victoria Cross Recipient.
  Maitland Road Crematorium, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
   
• Rendle, Sgt. Thomas Edward    b. December 14, 1884  d. June 1, 1946
  World War I Victoria Cross Recipient.
  Maitland Cemetery, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
   
• Scott, Robert George    b. April 20, 1857  d. October 3, 1918
  Basuto War Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in he served as a Sergeant in the Cape Mounted Rifles, British Army. During an attack on Morosi's Mountain, South Africa, April 8, 1879, Sergeant Scott volunteered to throw time-fused grenades, at the enemy who were bringing heavy fire on the colonial troops. He threw the time-fused shells over a line of stone barricades and made his men retire under cover, in case a shell should burst prematurely. By taking this precaution, he probably saved many...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Plumstead Cemetery, Wynberg, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
   

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