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| EIGHT GRAVES OF VICTORIA CROSS HOLDERS LOCATED IN THE HIGHLAND ROAD CEMETERY, PORTSMOUTH, HAVE BEEN REFURBISHED AND HEADSONES CLEANED. |
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| 26 July 2023 |
| The well known military Victoria Cross grave restorer, Steve Davies, has been very busy refurbishing the graves and cleaning the headstones of holders of the Victoria Cross buried in the Highland Road Cemetery, Portsmouth. There are in total eight Victoria Cross graves located in the cemetery and all have been refurbished and will be displayed in this website. |
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Cochrane's grave: before and after |
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| For the award of the Victoria Cross [ London Gazette, 24 December 1858 ], River Betwah, Near Jhansi, Indian Mutiny, 1 April 1858, Lieutenant Hugh Cochrane, 86th ( Royal County Down ) Regiment
For conspicuous gallantry near Jhansi, on the 1st of April 1858, when No 1 Company of the Regiment was ordered to take a gun, in dashing forward at a gallop, under a heavy musketry and artillery fire, driving the enemy from the gun, and keeping possession of it till the Company came up.
Hugh Cochrane was invested with his Victoria Cross by Major General Sir S Cotton at Peshawar, india, on the 2nd April 1860. |
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Iain Stewart, 26 July 2023