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Costello's grave: before and after |
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| THE BURIAL PLOT AND GRAVE OF BRIGADIER GENERAL EDMOND COSTELLO VC, CMG, CVO, DSO, HAS BEEN REFURBISHED IN ST MARK'S CHURCHYARD, HADLOW DOWN, SUSSEX. |
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| 30 May 2020 |
| The grave and surrounding area of Edmond Costello's burial plot in St Mark's Churchyard, Hadlow Down, Sussex, had, over the years, become extremely overgrown and very neglected. This was rectified in 2020 by the efforts of local man Steve Davies by cutting back folliage, shrubs and brambles. Refurbishment of Costello's grave and headstone was then carried out by cleaning the stonework and by the placing of gravel inside the kerbed area of the grave to protect it from weeds and other predations. ( The grave was last refurbished in 2007 ). |
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Costello's grave: before and after |
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| For the award of the Victoria Cross. [ London Gazette, 9 November 1897 ], Malakand Campaign, NW Frontier, India, 26 July 1897, Lieutenant Edmond William Costello, 22nd Punjab Infantry, Indian Army.
On the night of the 26th July 1897, at the Malakand, Lieutenant Costello went out from the hospital enclosure, and, with the assistance of two sepoys, brought in a wounded Lance-Havildar who was lying 60 yards away in the open on the football ground. This ground was at the time overrun with swordsmen and swept by a heavy fire both from the enemy and our own men who were holding the sapper lines.
Edmond Costello was invested with his Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on the 2nd December 1897.
[ London Gazette, 25 August 1917 ], Created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ), Major ( Brevet Lieutenant Colonel ) Edmond William Costello, Indian Army
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Iain Stewart, 30 May 2020