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VC416 Edmond William Costello
BORN 7 August 1873
DIED 7 June 1949 AGE 75
VC Won 26 July 1897 AGE 23
Place VC Won Malakand, India
War/Campaign Malakand Frontier War, India
Name Edmond William Costello No.
VC Issue No. 416 Awards VC CMG CVO DSO
Regiment Indian Army, 22nd Punjab Infantry
Later 14th Punjab Regiment
Now 8th Battalion, The Punjab Regiment, Pakistan Army
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Brigadier-General
Place Of Birth Sheikhbudin, near Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, India
Place Of Death Esperance Nursing Home, Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Buried/Location Ashes Parish Church of St Mark the Evangelist Churchyard, School Lane, Hadlow Down, East Sussex
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 10 June 1949
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 9 November 1897
VC Presented 2 December 1897, Queen Victoria, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Parish Church of St Mark the Evangelist Churchyard, School Lane, Hadlow Down, East Sussex
Painting at Stonyhurst College, Clitheroe, Lancashire
Plaque at Quetta Staff College, Pakistan
By The Way…
He was one of seven Victoria Cross winners from Stoneyhurst College, Lancashire
VC Held By
National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, England
