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VC22   John Augustus Conolly

BORN  30 May 1829

DIED   23 December 1888  AGE   59

VC Won  26 October 1854  AGE 25

Place VC Won  Sebastopol, Crimea

War/Campaign  Crimean War

Name   John Augustus Conolly   No.             

VC Issue No.   22   Awards   VC   

Regiment   49th Regiment

Later   Royal Berkshire Regiment

Now   1st Battalion The Rifles

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant-Colonel

Place Of Birth   Castletown House, near Celbridge, Co. Dublin, Ireland

Place Of Death   Magistrate's House, Curragh, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Buried/Location Ashes  Mount Jerome Cemetery, Mount Argus Road, Harold's Cross, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   Section B-88, Grave 163-6921, off Cyprus Walk

Gazetted   05 May 1857

VC Presented   26 June 1857 by Queen Victoria at Hyde Park, London, England

Memorials

Headstone at Mount Jerome Cemetery, Mount Argus Road, Harold's Cross, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland

Named on memorial to daughter All Saints Church, Church Street, Branston, Lincolnshire

By The Way…

Won the VC with the 49th Regiment that became the Berkshire Regiment, that is now the Rifles. But gazetted when he transferred to the Coldstream Guards.

VC Held By

Coldstream Guards, Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London, England

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