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Robert Scott (VC)

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During the attack on Caesar's Camp, in Natal, on the 6th January, 1900, these two men occupied a sangar, on the left of which all our men had been shot down and their positions occupied by Boers, and held their post for fifteen hours without food or water, all the time under an extremely heavy fire,
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keeping up their fire and a smart look-out though the Boers occupied some sangars on their immediate left rear. Private Scott was wounded.
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His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Museum of the Manchester Regiment,
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82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
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Robert Scott (disambiguation)
Haslingden
Lancashire
England
UK
Downpatrick
Northern Ireland
UK
Kilkeel
United Kingdom
British Army
Royal Air Force
Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant
Manchester Regiment
Second Boer War
World War I
World War II
Victoria Cross
Royal Ulster Constabulary
VC
English
Victoria Cross
British
Commonwealth
Haslingden
Lancashire
private
Manchester Regiment
British Army
Second Boer War

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