(notes:1. Private Barry's initial is J not T as on the grave marker
    2. Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901, so the marker should read "For Queen and Empire")
Photo: Terry Cawood

Photo: Terry Cawood

The Citation, recorded in the London Gazette of 8 August 1902, Issue: 27462, Page: 5086, reads:
"No. 3733 Private J. Barry, 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment.
During the night attack on the 7th and 8th January, 1901, on Monument Hill, Private Barry, although surrounded and threatened by the Boers at the time, smashed the breech of the Maxim gun, thus rendering it useless to its captors, and it was in doing this splendid act for his country that he met his death."

Photo: Terry Cawood

1st Bn The Royal Irish Regt.
Sacred to the memory of
4882 Sergeant J. Jones 3923 Private J. Donovan
3614 Lce Corpl J. Dennison 5295 Private M. Dundon
4348 Lce Corpl G. Dowie 1989 Private P. FitzGerald
3733 Private J. Barry 858 Private W. Grindon
1198 Private J. Colwell 6449 Private M. McGrath
724 Private T. Clancy 6331 Private T. Murphy
3439 Private J. Shea
who were killed or died from
wounds received in action
at Monument Hill, Belfast
on 7th. and 8th. Jan. 1901
R.I.P."

Further reading
Breaking traditions: Lord Roberts and the Boer War Victoria Crosses