THE STORY OF
SERGEANT
WILLIAM COFFEY VC DCM
by
Simon
Gaine
2: ‘William
Coffey would be astonished…’
3:
Questionable ‘facts’ about William Coffey
4: William
Coffey’s early life
7: The
Coffey brothers Crimea bound
8: In the
trenches: Coffey’s act of valour
9:
‘Distinguished conduct in the field’
14: The
Battle of Lucknow and the end of the Mutiny
15: Coffey’s
civilian experiment
17: ‘Unfit
for further service’
19: The rise
of the suicide story
20: The
spread of the suicide story
21: So who
was William Coffey?
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