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VC256   Michael Slevin

BORN   1826

DIED   15 August 1902  AGE   76

VC Won  3 April 1858   AGE   32

Place VC Won  Jhansi Fort

War/Campaign  The Indian Mutiny

Name   Michael Slevin   No.    

VC Issue No.   256   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Corps of Royal Engineers

Later   

Now   Royal Engineers

Rank VC Won   Corporal

Rank End Of Career   Corporal

Place Of Birth   Magheraculmoney, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

Place Of Death   Dromard, Co. Sligo, Ireland

Buried/Location Ashes   St Marys R.C. Churchyard, Bannagh Beg Road, Bannagh More, Kesh, Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   Slevin plot

Gazetted   11 November 1859

VC Presented   1860, India

Memorials

P  Headstone, St Marys R.C. Churchyard, Bannagh Beg Road, Bannagh More, Kesh, Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

P  Named on 'For Valour' board at the Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent

By The Way…

Death certificate shows name as Slevin

Buried in the Slevin family plot, headstone erected with his name 2009

VC Held By

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Thank you to Oliver Breen for the photos of the headstone