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BORN 1823
DIED 4 March 1858 AGE 34
VC Won 26 September 1857 AGE 34
Place VC Won Relief of Lucknow
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name John Ryan No.
VC Issue No. 183 Awards VC
Regiment 1st Madras Fusiliers
Later Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
Place Of Death Cawnpore, India
Buried/Location Ashes Old British Cemetery, Cawnpore (Kanpur), Uttar Pradesh, India
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Unmarked grave Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 18 June 1858
VC Presented 1858, Lieutenant-General Sir J Outram, India
Memorials
By The Way…
He lies in the confines of the cemetery in an unmarked grave
VC Held By
National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, England
