Major Clement Walker-Heneage, VC

1831 - 1901  (70 years)

• Name	Clement Walker-Heneage
  Prefix	Major
  Suffix	VC
  Birth	6 Mar 1831
  Gender	Male
  Death	9 Dec 1901	Compton House, Compton Bassett, Wiltshire
  Burial	St Swithin's churchyard, Compton Bassett
  Person ID	I76307	First tree
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2014

  
  

  Father	George Heneage Walker-Heneage, MP,   b. Bef 1838   d. 1875 (Age 37 years)
  Family ID	F70786	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Henrietta Vivian,   b. Abt 1831   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1865
  Children	1. Four sons Walker-Heneage   2. One daughter Walker-Heneage   3. Admiral Algernon Walker-Heneage-Vivian,   b. 4 Feb 1871   d. 26 Feb 1952 (Age 81 years)   4. Col. Godfrey Clement Walker-Heneage, DSO, MVO   d. 1901
  Family ID	F70787	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2014

  
  

• Notes

  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.)