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VC251 Hugh Stewart Cochrane
BORN 4 August 1829
DIED 18 April 1884 AGE 54
VC Won 1 April 1858 AGE 28
Place VC Won Jhansi
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name Hugh Stewart Cochrane No.
VC Issue No. 251 Awards VC
Regiment 86th Regiment
Later Royal Irish Rifles
Now Royal Irish Regiment
Rank VC Won Lieutenant & Adjutant
Rank End Of Career Colonel
Place Of Birth Fort William, Highlands, Scotland
Place Of Death At his home, Villiers Road, Southsea, Hampshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Highland Road Cemetery, Highland Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 23 April 1884
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Second Central, Row 11, Grave 3
Gazetted 24 December 1858
VC Presented 02 April 1860, Major-General Sir S Cotton, Peshawar, India
Memorials
P Headstone, Highland Road Cemetery, Highland Road, Southsea, Portsmouth
Plaque at St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, Northern Ireland
By The Way…
Headstone shows age as 55
VC Held By
Not known
