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About John Barry, VC
No. 3733 Private J. Barry, 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment.
During the night attack on the 7th and 8th January, 1901, on Monument Hill, Private Barry, although surrounded and threatened by the Boers at the time, smashed the breach of the Maxim gun, thus rendering: it useless to its captors, and it was in doing this splendid act for his country that he met his death.
London Gazette, August 8, 1902
His Vickers gun, National Army Museum
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John Barry, VC's Timeline
| 1873 |
February 1, 1873
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Kilkenny, Ireland
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| 1901 |
January 8, 1901
Age 27
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Monument Hill, Belfast, Nkangala, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Belfast Cemetery, Belfast, Nkangala, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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