What is recorded here
Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, holds the grave of Brigadier John Alexander Sinton, the Victoria Cross winner who bled at Orah Ruins while still dragging wounded men to safety. He returned from Indian campaigns to bury himself in Ulster soil, leaving behind a life marked by malaria research, royal honour and unbroken duty.
Why this person is known: British medical doctor, malariologist and soldier (1884-1956)
- Place of death
- Cookstown
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