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COSGROVE
This monument was erected to commemorate
SERGEANT WILLIAM COSGROVE V.C.
The Royal Munster Fusiliers
who died on 14. July 1936 at Queen Alexandra
Military Hospital Millbank London aged 46 years
The deed that gained him the highest award for bravery
was performed at Gallipoli. 26 April 1915. when he tore
away the barbed wire barricades that were impassable
obstructions. Despite terrific gunfire concentrated
on him by the enemy and thereby saved his batallion
who were exposed to the fate of annihilation otherwise
His comrades of the Regiment and of the British
and Allied forces remember him and his deed
with everlasting gratitude.