Place VC Won Battle of the Alma, Inkerman & Sebastopol, Crimea
War/Campaign Crimean War
Name John Park No. 2100
VC Issue No. 40 Awards VC
Regiment 77th Regiment
Later Middlesex Regiment
Now Princess of Wales Royal Regiment
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Place Of Death Allahabad, India
Buried/Location Ashes Allahabad Cemetery, Allahabad, Uttar Pradash, India
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 17 May 1863
Headstone Unmarked Grave Plot/Grave no. Church of Scotland Section
Gazetted 24 February 1857
VC Presented March 1858, GOC New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Memorials
By The Way…
He died of sunstroke
VC Held By
Newarke Houses Museum, 53 The Newarke, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
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Won the award for conspicuous bravery over a period of time at the Battles of Alma and Inkerman, and later distinguished himself at the taking of the rifle pits before Sebastopol.
