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BORN August 1842
DIED 10 August 1892 AGE 50
VC Won 28 November 1857 AGE 15
Place VC Won Cawnpore
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name Thomas Flinn No.
VC Issue No. 230 Awards VC
Regiment 64th Regiment
Later North Staffordshire Regiment
Now 3rd Battalion the Mercian Regiment - disbanded July 2012
Rank VC Won Drummer
Rank End Of Career Drummer
Place Of Birth Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland
Place Of Death Athlone Workhouse (now St Mary's Hall), East Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland
Buried/Location Ashes Cornamagh Roman Catholic Cemetery (also known as Athlone Old Cemetery), Co. Westmeath, Ireland
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 12 August 1892
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Common Ground, Section F, Grave 64 (Casey family headstone on grave)
Gazetted 12 April 1859
VC Presented 1860, Brigadier Hall, Karachi, India
Memorials
P Headstone, Cornamagh Roman Catholic Cemetery (also known as Athlone Old Cemetery), Co. Westmeath, Ireland
Memorial stone, Cornamagh Roman Catholic Cemetery (also known as Athlone Old Cemetery), Co. Westmeath, Ireland
P Named on memorial at Garrison Church of St George, Whittington Barracks, Tamworth Road, Lichfield, Staffordshire
P Flinn Close, Lichfield, Staffordshire
By The Way…
Joint youngest VC recipient at 15
Named as Flynn in the burial register
VC Held By
Not known
