Edmund William Costello

Brigadier-General Edmund William Costello VC CMG CVO DSO Croix de Guerre (France (August 7, 1873 - June 7, 1949) was born in Sheikhbudia, North West Frontier, British India, now Pakistan, and was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Details

He was 23 years old, and a lieutenant in the 22nd Punjab Infantry, Indian Army during the Malakand Frontier War, India when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 26 July 1897 at Malakand on the Indian Frontier, Lieutenant Costello went out from the hospital enclosure and with the assistance of two sepoys, brought in a wounded lance-havildar who was lying convert|60|yd away, in the open, on the football ground. This ground was at the time over-run with swordsmen and swept by a heavy fire from both the enemy and our own men who were holding the sapper lines.

Further information

He served in the First World War and achieved the rank of Brigadier General. His grave and headstone memorial is at St. Mark's Parish Churchyard, Hadlow Down, Sussex, England.

Costello was educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, England, a Catholic boarding school run by the Jesuit order.

The medal

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the National Army Museum "(Chelsea, England)".

References

*Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000)
*Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
*The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)

External links

* [http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/stewart/sussex.htm Location of grave and VC medal] "(East Sussex)"