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VC630 Gerald Robert O’Sullivan
BORN 8 November 1888
DIED 21 August 1915 AGE 26
VC Won 1-2 July 1915 AGE 26
Place VC Won Gully Ravine, Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Gerald Robert O’Sullivan No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 630 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1st Battalion, A Company
Later
Now Royal Irish Regiment
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Frankfield, near Douglas, Co. Cork, Ireland
Place Of Death Hill 70 (Scimitar Hill), Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, Turkey
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, Turkey
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 1 September 1915
VC Presented Registered post to his mother, Charlotte on the 26 September 1916
Memorials
P Named on Helles Memorial (panel 97-101), Gallipoli, Turkey
P Named on memorial, Memorial Chapel, Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey
P Named on War Memorial, St Tarcisus RC Church, Camberley, Surrey
P Named on Catholic Officers War Memorial, Westminster Cathedral, London
P Named on Dorchester War Memorial, Dorset
P Plaque, Sacred Heart & St Aldhelm RC Church, Sherbourne, Somerset
Named on War Memorial, Chapel, Wimbeldon College, Edgehill, SW London
Named on Regimental Memorial at St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Cross of Sacrifice, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
By The Way…
O’Sullivan went from school to Sandhurst and was commissioned in 1909
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
Thank you to John and Judy Bartley for photos from Gallipoli
