CO-BGWT-0018

Record Date: 
14 March 2014
Graveyard: 
Ballyfeard, Ballinluig West
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IN MEMORIAM
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF

CORPORAL DENIS COVENEY
COMMISSARIAT AND TRANSPORT CORPS
WHO LOST HIS OWN LIFE BY DROWNING IN THE NILE
ON 2ND APRIL 1886, IN THE 25TH YEAR OF HIS AGE
WHEN MAKING A GALLANT EFFORT
TO SAVE THAT OF COMRADE

THIS CROSS ERECTED
BY THE
OFFICERS, NON COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
AND MEN OF
THE COMMISSARIAT AND TRANSPORT
SERVING IN EGYPT, AS A MARK
OF RESPECT FOR HIS DETERMINED BRAVERY
MAY HE REST IN PEACE

AMEN

Memorial Type: 
Cross
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.754666666667
Longitude: 
-8.407155
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
CORPORAL
Name: 
DENIS
Surname: 
COVENEY
Date of death - day: 
2
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1886
Age: 
24