Danagher, John b. June 25, 1860 d. January 9, 1919 1st Boer War Victoria Cross Recipient. He was born in Limerick, and became a Trooper in Nourse's (Transvaal) Horse. On January 16, 1881 at Elandsfontein, during the first Boer War, he advanced, along with Lance-Corporal James Murray of the Connaught Rangers, for about five hundred yards, under heavy fire from about sixty of the enemy, to rescue two Privates (Byrne and Davis) of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, who had been wounded. Murray was himself shot, the bullet exiting near the spine, and...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine) Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England Plot: Section M, Row 1, Grave 6
Day, Sidney James b. July 3, 1891 d. July 7, 1966 World War I Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Norwich, England, he served as a Corporal with the 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, British Army. On August 26, 1917, at Hargicourt, France, Corporal Day was in command of a bombing section detailed to clear a maze of trenches still held by the enemy. While on the line his detail killed two German machine gunners and took four prisoners. Immediately after he returned to his section a stick bomb fell into a trench occupied by five men and one badly...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
b. June 25, 1860 d. January 9, 1919