Sergeant-Major Cornelius Coughlan VC

A unique and historic occasion occurred in Aughavale cemetery near Westport, Co. Mayo, on 7 August 2004. For the first time since the foundation of the state an Irish minister for defence dedicated the grave of an Irish soldier in the British Army, Sergeant-Major Cornelius Coughlan.   Cornelius Coughlan was born in June 1828, and ... Read more

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