Find A Grave - Portsmouth

Bonehill, Bessie d. August 21, 1902
Entertainer. She was an international superstar of the Victorian Music Hall. And is recognized as the first of the Victorian ‘male impersonators'. It was said that her songs were whistled and sung all over the civilised world. (Bio by: Laurie)
Kingston Cemetery, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Cochrane, Hugh Stewart b. August 4, 1829 d. April 23, 1884
Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross Recipient. He was a Lieutenant in the 86th Regiment (later The Royal Irish Rifles), British Army during the Indian Mutiny. His VC citation reads "On 1 April 1858 near Jhansi, India, when No. 1 company of the regiment was ordered to take a gun, Lieutenant Cochrane dashed forward at a gallop under heavy musketry and artillery fire, drove the enemy from the gun and kept possession of it until the company came up. He also showed conspicuous gallantry in attacking the...[Read More] (Bio by: derrick unwin)
Highland Road Cemetery, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Curtis, Henry b. December 21, 1822 d. November 23, 1896
British Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Romsey, Hampshire, he became a Boatswain's Mate in the Royal Navy. On the June 18, 1855, during the Crimean War, immediately after the asault on Sebastapol, a soldier of the 57th Regiment was wounded in both legs and was sitting up and crying for help. At once, Henry Curtis, along with Henry Raby and John Taylor left the shelter of their battery works and ran forwards for seventy yards, across enemy ground, through heavy gunfire.They succeeded in...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Kingston Cemetery, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Plot: Plot 81, Row 10, Line 22
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
Goate, William b. January 12, 1836 d. October 26, 1901
Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross Recipient. Born at Fritton, in Norfolk, he joined the 9th Lancers (The Queen's Royal) and reached the rank of Lance-Corporal. On March 6, 1858 at Lucknow, during the Indian Mutiny, he dismounted in the presence of the enemy to pick up the body of an officer (Major Smyth), which he then attempted to remove from the field, but was forced to relinquish, as he was surrounded by hostile cavalry. However, he returned, under heavy fire; and, this time, he was successful...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Highland Road Cemetery, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Plot: Plot E, Row 5, Grave 20
Napier, Charles James b. August 10, 1782 d. August 29, 1853
British General, Statesman. Known as "The Conqueror of Sind", he was cousin to Admiral Sir Charles. He joined the army when he was 13 years old and was many times wounded in different actions. In 1841 he was sent to India. The taking of Sindh, an area now in Pakistan, was to free its people from the Baluchis under Amir Shir Mohamed. In 1843, after six months of fighting, disease and...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
Royal Garrison Churchyard, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Nelson, Horatio b. September 29, 1758 d. October 21, 1805
British Navy Admiral of the White. Born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England, his mother died when he was nine and he went to sea three years later abord "HMS Raisonnable" under his uncle Captain Maurice Suckling. By 1777 he was a Lieutenant and assigned to the West Indies, where he saw action during the American Revolution. Promoted post-Captain in 1779 at the age of 20, his first command was the frigate "HMS Hinchingbroke." When the French Revolutionary Wars began in 1793, Nelson was given...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: Killed at the Battle of Trafalgar
HMS Victory ship, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
The Portsmouth Naval Memorial commemorates the almost 10,000 sailors of the First World War and almost 15,000 from the Second World War who have no known grave, the majority of whom died at sea.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Raby, Henry James b. September 26, 1827 d. February 13, 1907
Crimean War Victoria Cross Recipient. He was born in Boulogne in France, although his parents came from Llanelli in South Wales. He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset and entered the Royal Navy in 1842, when he joined H.M.S. Monarch. In 1850, he was promoted to Lieutenant, and served on H.M.S. Wasp off the West Coast of Africa until 1854, when the Crimean War broke out and he was sent to the Black Sea, serving in the trenches from October 1854 until September 1855. On June 18, 1855...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Highland Road Cemetery, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Shaw, Hugh b. February 4, 1839 d. August 25, 1904
British Officer; Victoria Cross Awardee. Shaw was born in Madras, India, on February 4, 1839. He was educated at Sandhurst, and by the age of 16, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. In 1855 he served in the Crimean War. Two years later, in 1857, he saw action in the Indian Mutiny and from 1864 to 1866, he fought at Nakuman in New Zealand. In the battle on January 24, 1865, together with 4 other soldiers, while under intense enemy fire, Shaw entered within meters of bushes on enemy...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
Highland Road Cemetery, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Temple, William b. November 7, 1833 d. February 13, 1919
Victoria Cross recipient and Military Doctor. He was born near Dublin, Ireland, and became a Surgeon General in the Royal Regiment of Artillery. He served in New Zealand from 1860 to 1866 where he took part in the Waikato-Hauhau Maori War and saw action at Teairei, Rangiriri, and Rangiawhia. On November 20, 1863, at Rangiriri, New Zealand, during an attack on the Maori's positions and under the enemy's fire, he crossed the entrance to the Maori stronghold, while under intense enemy fire, in...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
Highland Road Cemetery, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Plot: O/S: SZ 658 988
White, Geoffrey Saxton b. July 2, 1886 d. January 28, 1918
World War I Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Kent, England, he served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy. On January 28, 1918, off the coast of Dardanelles, Turkey, Lieutenant Commander White was in command of the British submarine HMS E14 when he attacked a Turkish merchant ship. The raid went wrong when one of the torpedoes exploded prematurely, damaging E14 and it was forced to surface where it was bombarded by Turkish coastal artillery. Lieutenant Commander White knew his...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Plot: Lost at Sea; name is listed at Number 28
Williams, William Charles b. September 15, 1880 d. April 25, 1915
World War I Victoria Cross Recipient. Born in Stanton Lacy, England, he served as a Able Seaman in the British Royal Navy. During the landing on V Beach Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey, Able Seaman Williams with three other men was assisting an officer from their ship the HMS River Clyde at the work of securing the lighters. He held on to a rope for over an hour, standing chest deep in the sea, under continuous enemy fire. He was eventually dangerously wounded and later killed by a shell fire...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Plot: No known grave; name is listed at Number 8.

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