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Hugh Shaw VC

Gravestone Inscription

In Loving Memory of
MAJOR GENERAL HUGH SHAW VC CB
LATE OF THE ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT
DIED AUGUST 25TH 1904
AGED 65 YEARS
ALSO HIS WIFE EMILY GRACE SHAW
BORN APRIL 2ND 1851
DIED MARCH 27TH 1932

 

Details of Award
For gallant conduct at the skirmish near Nakumaru, New Zealand, on the 24th January last, in proceeding under a heavy fire, with four privates of the Regiment, who volunteered to accompany him, to within thirty yards of the bush occupied by the rebels, in order to carry off a comrade who was badly wounded. On the afternoon of that day, Captain Shaw was ordered to occupy a position about half a mile from the camp. He advanced in skirmishing order, and when thirty yards from the bush he deemed it prudent to retire to the palisade about sixty yards from the bush, as two of his party had been wounded. Finding that one of them was unable to move, he called for volunteers to advance to the front to carry the man to the rear, and the four privates referred to accompanied him, under a heavy fire, to the place where the wounded man was lying, and they succeeded in bringing him to the rear
 
Further Information
He was granted a distinguished service award in April 1887, a month before retiring as a Major General.
 
Life in Southsea
Lived at 'St Lanner', 5 Victoria Grove, Southsea (1901)