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Clement Walker Heneage

Major Clement Walker-Heneage, VC (6 March 1831 – 9 December 1901) was an English recipient of the Victoria
Major Clement Walker-
Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British
Heneage, VC
and Commonwealth forces.

Contents
Early life
Army career
Victoria Cross
Later life
Family
References
Born 6 March 1831
Compton Bassett,
Early life Wiltshire
Died 9 December 1901
Walker-Heneage was born in 1831, the eldest son of George Heneage Walker-Heneage, Member of Parliament for
(aged 70)
Devizes 1838-1857.[1]
Compton Bassett
Buried St Swithun's
Army career Church, Compton
Entering the army, he served with the 8th Hussars in the Crimean War (1853–56), and was present at many Bassett
engagements of that campaign, including the battles of Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, Tchernaïa, and the Siege of Allegiance United
Sevastopol. He rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava.[1] Kingdom
Service/ British Army
At the close of the Crimean war he proceeded to India with his regiment, which took part in suppressing the Indian
branch
Mutiny (1857–58) in Rajputana and Central India. He was present at the capture of Kotah, the reoccupation of
Chundaree, the battle of Kotah ke Serai, the capture of Gwalior and of Powree, the battle of Sindwaho, and the action Years of 1851-1868

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of Koorwye and Naharghur[1] service

Rank Major
Victoria Cross Unit 8th Hussars

Walker-Heneage was 27 years old, and a captain in the 8th Hussars, British Army, during the Indian Mutiny when Battles/wars Crimean War
the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. Indian Mutiny
Awards Victoria Cross
On 17 June 1858 at Gwalior, British India, Captain Heneage - together with Sergeant Joseph Ward, Farrier George
Hollis and Private John Pearson - was in a charge made by a squadron of the 8th Hussars.

His citation reads:

8th Hussars, Captain (now Brevet-Major) Clement Walker Heneage

Selected for the Victoria Cross by their companions in the gallant charge made by a squadron of the Regiment at Gwalior, on the 17th of June,
1858, when, supported by a division of the Bombay Horse Artillery, and Her Majesty's 95th Regiment, they routed the enemy, who were advancing
against Brigadier Smith's position, charged through the rebel camp into two batteries, capturing and bringing into their camp two of the enemy's
guns, under a heavy and converging fire from the Fort and Town. (Field Force Orders by Major-General Sir Hugh Henry Rose, G.C.B.,
Commanding Central India Field Force, dated Camp, Gwalior, 28th June, 1858.)[2]

Later life
Walker-Heneage retired from the army in 1868. He succeeded to the family estates on his father´s death in 1875, and "devoted himself to the life and duties of a
country gentleman" in Wiltshire.[1] He was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1887.[3]

He died, suddenly, at his residence Compton House, Compton Bassett, Wiltshire, on 9 December 1901,[1] and is buried in St Swithin's churchyard, Compton
Bassett.[4]

Family
Walker-Heneage married, in 1865, Henrietta Vivian, daughter of H. Vivian, of Singleton, Glamorgan, with whom he had one daughter and four sons.[1]

References
1. "Obituary - Major Walker-Heneage, VC". The Times (36635). London. 11 December 1901. p. 6.

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2. "No. 22223" (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22223/page/294). The London Gazette. 28 January 1859. p. 294.

3. "No. 25680" (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/25680/page/1222). The London Gazette. 8 March 1887. p. 1222.
4. "Findagrave" (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=heneage&GSfn=clement&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=11355391&
df=all&). Retrieved 12 December 2011.

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