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VC254 Joseph Charles Brennan
BORN August 1836
DIED 24 September 1872 AGE 36
VC Won 3 April 1858 AGE 21
Place VC Won Jhansi Fort
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name Joseph Charles Brennan No.
VC Issue No. 254 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Regiment of Artillery
Later
Now Royal Artillery
Rank VC Won Bombardier
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth St Probus, Truro, Cornwall, England
Place Of Death Elham, Folkestone, Kent, England
Buried/Location Ashes Shorncliffe Millitary Cemetery (Garrison Cemetery), Sandy Lane, Sandgate, Kent, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 26 September 1872
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section F
Gazetted 11 November 1859
VC Presented 20 April 1860, Gwalior, India
Memorials
P Headstone, Shorncliffe Millitary Cemetery (Garrison Cemetery), Sandy Lane, Sandgate, Kent
P Named on memorial at Royal Artillery Chapel, Woolwich, London
P Folkstone Victoria Cross memorial, Tower of Christchurch, Sandgate Road, Folkstone, Kent
By The Way…
Headstone erected 1995 by the Royal Regiment of Artillery, not on exact location of grave
VC Held By
Privately held
