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VC275   Joseph Ward

BORN   1834

DIED   23 November 1872  AGE   38

VC Won  17 June 1858   AGE   24

Place VC Won   Gwalior

War/Campaign  The Indian Mutiny

Name   Joseph Ward   No.    ELECTED BY REGIMENT

VC Issue No.   275   Awards   VC   

Regiment   8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars

Later   

Now   Queen's Royal Hussars

Rank VC Won   Sergeant

Rank End Of Career   Sergeant

Place Of Birth   Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland

Place Of Death   Longford, Co. Longford, Ireland

Buried/Location Ashes   St John's Church of Ireland Churchyard, Church Street, Longford Town, Co Longford, Ireland

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   26 January 1859

VC Presented   18 June 1859, GOC Bombay, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Somerset, India

Memorials

P  Headstone, St John's Church of Ireland Churchyard, Church Street, Longford Town, Co Longford, Ireland

By The Way…

His VC was sold at Sothebys for £21 in 1888

VC Held By

Not known

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