Dudley Stagpoole
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Hiberno-English Template:Infobox military person Dudley Stagpoole Template:Postnominals (1838 – 1 August 1911) was a British Army soldier and an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Early life
Stagpoole was born in Killunan, County Galway in 1838.
Victoria Cross
Drummer Dudley Stagpoole, 57th Regiment of Foot, was about 25 years old during the Second Taranaki War in New Zealand, when the following deed took place on 2 October 1863 at Allan's Hill near Poutoko, Taranaki, for which he and Ensign John Thornton Down were awarded the Victoria Cross (VC).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Stagpoole had been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) for a separate incident at Kaipakopako:
Further information
He died in Ware, Hertfordshire on 1 August 1911.
His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment and Queen's Regiment RHQ, Howe Barracks, Canterbury, Kent<ref name="VC2008">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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- 1838 births
- 1911 deaths
- 19th-century Irish military personnel
- Irish soldiers in the British Army
- Middlesex Regiment soldiers
- Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal
- Military personnel from County Galway
- British military personnel of the New Zealand Wars
- New Zealand Wars recipients of the Victoria Cross
- British Army personnel of the Crimean War
- British military musicians
- British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross