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BORN September 1840
DIED 9 August 1889 AGE 48
VC Won 7 May 1867 AGE 26
Place VC Won Little Andaman Island, Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean
War/Campaign Andaman Island Expedition
Name James Cooper No. 496
VC Issue No. 330 Awards VC
Regiment 24th Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Later South Wales Borderers
Now 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Wales - disbanded July 2012
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Place Of Death At his home, 43 Court Farm Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Buried/Location Ashes Warstone Lane Cemetery, Hockley, Birmingham, West Midlands
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 15 October 1889
Headstone Unmarked Grave Plot/Grave no. Section P, Public Grave 1428
Gazetted 17 December 1867
VC Presented 16 April 1868 by GOC Pegu Division, Major-General Thomas Faunce at Rangoon, Burma
Memorials
P Plaque at Cemetery Lodge, Warstone Lane Cemetery, Hockley, Birmingham, West Midlands (unveiled 30 November 2003)
P Victoria Cross honours board, The Royal Welsh Museum, The Barracks, Brecon, Powys
Painting of gig by unknown artist at the Army Medical Services Museum
By The Way…
A ceremony was held to honour the VC with an unveiling of a plaque at the cemetery gates November 2003
VC Held By
Royal Warwickshire (TA) Regiment, TA Centre, Barrows Lane, Sheldon, Birmingham, West Midlands, England
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