Boy, First Class John Cornwell VC - Royal Navy ( HMS 'Chester' )


GRAVE LOCATION FOR HOLDERS OF THE VICTORIA CROSS
IN : EAST LONDON

Name John,
BUCKLEY
John Travers,
CORNWELL
George Leslie,
DREWRY
Patrick,
MULLANE
Rank Dep Asst Commissary of Ordnance Boy, First Class Lieutenant Sergeant Major
Force Bengal Ordnance Department Royal Navy * Royal Naval Reserve * Royal Horse Artillery
VC won Delhi Magazine, Indian Mutiny,
11 May 1857
Battle of Jutland, North Sea,
31 May 1916
V - Beach, Seddul Bahr, Gallipoli,
25 April 1915
Maiwand, Afghan War,
27 July 1880
London Gaz 18 June 1858 15 September 1916 16 August 1915 16 May 1881
Born Stalybridge, Cheshire,
24 May 1813
Leyton,
8 January 1900
Forest Gate,
3 November 1894
Ahmednugger, Deccan, India,
October 1858
Died 14 July 1876,
Poplar, East London
2 June 1916,
Grimsby District Hospital, Lincolnshire
3 August 1918,
Scapa Flow, Orkneys
20 November 1919,
Plaistow, East London
Grave Tower Hamlets Cemetery Manor Park Cemetery City of London Cemetery, Manor Park St Patrick's Cemetery, Leytonstone
( common plot - headstone April 2013 )
Location
of VC
Royal Logistic Corps Museum, Worthy Down, Hampshire Lord Ashcroft Gallery
Imperial War Museum, London
Lord Ashcroft Gallery
Imperial War Museum, London
Not publicly held
Remarks None * HMS Chester * Gallipoli landings from SS River Clyde None

EAST LONDON

Name William,
NASH
John Joseph,
SIMS


Rank Sergeant Private

Force 2nd Bn, Rifle Brigade 34th Regiment
( Border Regiment )


VC won Iron Bridge, Lucknow, Indian Mutiny,
11 March 1858
Sebastopol, Crimea,
18 June 1855


London Gaz 24 Decemfber 1858 24 February 1857

Born Newcastle, Co Limerick, Ireland,
23 April 1824
Bloomsbury, Central London,
1835


Died 6 April 1875,
Homerton, East London
6 December 1881,
Union Workhouse, City of London


Grave St John-at-Hackney Churchyard
( no headstone )
City of London Cemetery, Manor Park
( memorial plaque erected April 2003 )


Location
of VC
Not publicly held Not publicly held

Remarks None None

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