Significance
Driver Horace Henry Glasock was awarded the Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on 15 December 1900 for his role in recovering the guns of Q Battery, Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) at Korn Spruit (also known as Sanna's Pos) on 31 March 1900.
After his discharge from the RHA in 1911, he and his family settled in Johannesburg.
He joined the Union Defence Force and served in the 1914 Rebellion, German South West Africa and German East Africa in the South African Army Service Corps Animal Transport Unit with the rank of Conductor (equivalent of Warrant Officer Class 1 in the Army) until boarded as medically unfit for further service.
He died in Cape Town.
Further reading
Lord Roberts and the Boer War Victoria Crosses
The Anglo-boer War renovation project
Sites in the vicinity
Conductor H.H. Glasock VC
Sergeant Thomas Edward Rendle, VC