Looking at the grave of Lord Wantage (tall cross on right), and his son (angels and cherubs, to the right).
Robert James Loyd-Lindsay
VC Issue No. 6 Awards VC KCB
Regiment Scots (Fusilier) Guards
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Brigadier-General
Place Of Birth Balcarres, Fife, Scotland
Place Of Death Lockinge House, Lockinge, near Wantage, Oxfordshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Holy Trinity Churchyard, Well Street, Ardington, near Wantage, Oxfordshire, England
Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Vault inside church
Gazetted 24 February 1857
VC Presented 26 June 1857 by Queen Victoria at Hyde Park, London, England
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On his death, Florence Nightingale, a close personal friend since the Crimea, wrote:
Lord Wantage is a great loss but he had been a great gain. And what he has gained for us can never be lost. It is my experience that such men exist only in England. A man who had everything (to use the common phrase) that this world could give him, but who worked as hard, and to the last, as the poorest able man and all for others for the common good. A man whose life makes a great difference for all. All are better than if he had not lived, and this betterment is for always it does not die with him. That is the true estimate of a great life. God bless him and we will bless him. And we will bless God for having made him.
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