Place VC Won Battle of the Alma & Sebastopol, Crimea
War/Campaign Crimean War
Name Sir Luke O’Connor No.
VC Issue No. 8 Awards VC KCB CB
Regiment 23rd Regiment
Later Royal Welch Fusiliers
Now 1st Battalion The Royal Welch
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Major-General
Place Of Birth Elphin, Co. Roscommon, Ireland
Place Of Death Clarges Street, Picadilly, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes St Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road, Kensal Rise, London, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 04 February 1915
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Plot 1100
Gazetted 24 February 1857
VC Presented 26 June 1857 by Queen Victoria at Hyde Park, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone St Marys R.C. Cemetery, Kensal Green, London
P Plaque at Roman Catholic Church, Farm Street, Mayfair, London
Luke O'Connor House, (community resource centre), Barracks Field estate, off Kingsmill Road, Hightown, Wrexham, Clywd, Wales
P Plaque St Giles parish church, Wrexham
Baptismal Font, St Patricks Catholic Church, Elpin, Co Roscommon, Ireland
By The Way…
Joined the welch fusiliers at 17 in 1849, retired a Major General 1887
VC Held By
Regimental Museum of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, The Queen's Tower, Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
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With the Royal Welch Fusiliers he took and carried the Queens colours, during the advance at the Battle of Alma, until wounded and did the same at Sebastopol until wounded.
