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BORN 2 October 1822
DIED 23 January 1900 AGE 77
VC Won 3 April 1858 AGE 35
Place VC Won Jhansi and Calpee
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name James Pearson No. 1882
VC Issue No. 252 Awards VC
Regiment 86th Regiment
Later Royal Irish Rifles
Now Royal Irish Regiment
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Rathdowney, Co. Laois, Ireland
Place Of Death Madras area, India
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown - India
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 28 April 1860
VC Presented January 1861, GOC Bombay, Lieutenant-General Sir W Mansfield, India
Memorials
Named on Regimental Memorial at St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Memorial at Memorial Park, Lion's Head, Ontario, Canada
By The Way…
His widow Sophia, died 26 August 1900 is buried at St Thomas Cemetery, Pursewal Kum, Madras, India
Reported to have ridden in the Charge of the Light Brigade
VC Held By
Not known
