NORTHERN IRELAND

GRAVE LOCATION FOR HOLDERS OF THE VICTORIA CROSS
IN : NORTHERN IRELAND

TABLE-1 : BELFAST

Name Patrick,
CARLIN Valentine Munbee,
MCMASTER Bernard,
MCQUIRT

Rank Private Surgeon Private

Force 13th Regiment
(later The Somerset Light Infantry) 78th Regiment
(later The Seaforth Highlanders) 95th Regiment,
(later The Sherwood Foresters)

VC won Indian Mutiny,
6 April 1858 Indian Mutiny,
25 September 1857 Indian Mutiny,
6 January 1858

London Gaz 26 October 1858 18 June 1858 11 November 1859

Born Belfast,
1832 Trinchinopoly, India,
16 May 1834 Lurgan, Co Armagh,
1829

Died 11 May 1895,
Belfast 22 January 1872,
Belfast 5 October 1888,
Belfast

Grave Friar's Bush RC Cemetery, Belfast
(Grave not marked) City Cemetery, Belfast City Cemetery, Belfast

Location
of VC Somerset Light Infantry Museum, Taunton National War Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Not publicly held

Remarks None None None

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TABLE-2 : CO ANTRIM / CO DOWN

Name Robert,
QUIGG Sir George Stuart,
WHITE Hugh,
COLVIN Robert,
SCOTT

Rank Sergeant Field-Marshall Major Private

Force 12th Bn The Royal Irish Rifles 92nd Regiment,
(later The Gordon Highlanders) 9th Bn The Cheshire Regiment The Manchester Regiment

VC won France,
1 July 1916 Charasiah, Afghan War,
6 October 1879 Belgium,
20 September 1917 Boer War,
6 January 1900

London Gaz 9 September 1916 2 June 1881 8 November 1917 26 July 1901

Born Giant's Causeway, Co Antrim,
12 March 1885 Port Stewart, Co Antrim,
6 July 1835 Burnley, Lancashire,
1 February 1887 Haslingden, Lancashire,
4 June 1874

Died 14 May 1955,
Ballycastle, Co Antrim 24 June 1912,
Royal Hospital Chelsea, London 16 September 1962,
Bangor, Co Down 21 February 1961,
Downpatrick, Co Down

Grave Billy Protestant Churchyard, Co Antrim Broughshane Presb'n Churchyard, Co Antrim Carnmoney Cemetery, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim Christchurch Cemetery, Kilkeel, Co Down

Location
of VC Royal Ulster Rifles Museum, Belfast Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen Cheshire Regiment Museum, Chester Manchester Regiment Museum, Ashton-under-Lyne

Remarks None GCB OM GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO None None

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TABLE-2 : CO FERMANAGH / CO TYRONE

Name Charles,
IRWIN James,
MCGUIRE Michael,
SLEAVON John Alexander,
SINTON

Rank Private Sergeant Corporal Brigadier

Force 53rd Regiment,
(later The King's Shropshire Light Infantry) 1st Bengal Fusiliers
(later The Royal Munster Fusiliers) Corps of Royal Engineers Indian Medical Service

VC won Indian Mutiny,
16 November 1857 Indian Mutiny,
14 September 1857 * Indian Mutiny,
3 April 1858 Mesopotamia,
21 January 1916

London Gaz 24 December 1858 24 December 1858 11 November 1859 21 June 1916

Born Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim, Ireland,
1824 Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh,
1827 Magheraculmoney, Co Fermanagh,
1826 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada,
2 December 1884

Died 8 April 1873,
Newton Butler, Co Fermanagh Date of death unknown
(research shows alive in May 1863) 15 August 1902,
Dromard, Co Sligo 25 March 1956,
Cookstown, Co Tyrone

Grave St Mark's Churchyard, Magheraveely, Co Fermanagh Donagh Cemetery (unmarked)
(buried under the name Patrick Donnelly) Bannagh RC Churchyard, Tubrid, Co Fermanagh Creggan Churchyard, Co Tyrone

Location
of VC King's Shropshire Light Infantry Museum, Shrewsbury National Army Museum, Chelsea Not publicly held Army Medical Services Museum, Aldershot

Remarks None * Forfeit of VC - 1862 None OBE

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