Awards & Winners

1857 Victoria Cross

Check winners and nominations of 1857 Victoria Cross. Check awards winners of 1857 Victoria Cross. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

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Dighton Probyn

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place in 1857 - 1858 as Captain of the 2nd Punjab Cavalry during the Indian Mutiny.)
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John Buckley

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 11th May, 1857 as Assistant Commissary\tof the Commissariat Department during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Cornelius Coughlan

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 8 June 1857 as Colour Sergeant of the 75th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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George Forrest

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 11th May, 1857 as Lieutenant of the Bengal Veterans Establishment during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Thomas Cadell

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place 12th June 1857 as Lieutenant of the 2nd European Bengal Fusiliers during the Indian Mutiny.)
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William George Cubitt

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 30th June, 1857 as Lieutenant in the 13th Bengal Native Infantry, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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William Dowling

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 4 July 1857 and 27 September 1857 as Private of the 32nd Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Andrew Cathcart Bogle

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 29th July, 1857 as Lieutenant in the 78th Regiment, British Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Abraham Boulger

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place from 12th July to 25th September, 1857 as Lance Corporal of the 84th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place between June 30th and November 22nd, 1857 as Lieutenant of the 13th Bengal Native Infantry during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Joseph Petrus Hendrik Crowe

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 12 August 1857 as Lieutenant of the 78th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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James Blair

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 12 August and 23 October, 1857 as Captain of the 2nd Bombay Light Cavalry during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Robert Blair

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28th September, 1857 as Lieutenant in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), British Army, attached to 9th Lancers (The Queen's Royal) during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Patrick Donohoe

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28 September 1857 as Private of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Bernard Diamond

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28 September, 1857 as Sergeant of the Bengal Horse Artillery during the Indian Mutiny.)
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William Bradshaw

(For intrepidity and good conduct when, ordered with Surgeon Home, 90th Regiment, to remove the wounded men left behind the column that forced its way into the Residency of Lucknow, on the 26th September, 1857. The dooly bearers had left the doolies, but by great exertions, and notwithstanding the close proximity of the sepoys, Surgeon Home, and Assistant-Surgeon Bradshuw. got some of the bearers together,.and Assistant-Surgeon Bradshaw with about twenty doolies, becoming separated from the rest of the party, succeeded in reaching the Residency in safety by the river bank.)
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John Divane

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on September 10th, 1857 as Private of the 60th Rifles during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Augustus Anson

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28th September and 16th November, 1857 as Captain of the 84th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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John Daunt

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 2 October 1857 as and a lieutenant in the 11th Bengal Native Infantry, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny)
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Denis Dempsey

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 12th August, 1857 and 14th March, 1858 as Private of the 10th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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John Freeman

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 10th October, 1857 as Private in the 9th Lancers (The Queen's Royal) Regiment, British Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Alfred Kirke Ffrench

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th November, 1857 as Lieutenant of the 53rd Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Denis Dynon

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 2nd October 1857 at Chota Behar, India as Sergeant in the 53rd Regiment of Foot, British Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Thomas Flynn

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28th November, 1857 as Drummer in the 64th Regiment of Foot, British Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Stephen Garvin

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place 23rd June, 1857 as Colour Sergeant of the 60th Rifles during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Henry Gore-Browne

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 21st August, 1857 as captain of the 32nd Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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John Dunlay

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th November, 1857 as Lance Corporal of the 93rd Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Francis David Millet Brown

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th November, 1857 as Lieutenant of the 1st European Bengal Fusiliers during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Richard Fitzgerald

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28 September, 1857 as Gunner of the Bengal Horse Artillery during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Charles John Stanley Gough

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 15th August 1857, 18th August 1857, 27th January 1858, 3rd February 1858 as Major of the 5th Bengal European Cavalry, during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Peter Grant

(For great personal gallantry, on the 16th of November, 1857, at the Secundra Bagh, in killing five of the enemy with one of their own swords, who were attempting to follow Lieutenant-Colonel Ewart, when that officer was carrying away a colour which he had captured. Elected by the private soldiers of the Regiment.)
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Patrick Graham

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 17th November, 1857 as Private of the 90th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Robert Grant

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 24th September, 1857 as Sergeant of the 5th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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John Christopher Guise

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th and 17th November, 1857 as Major of the 90th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Patrick Green

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 11 September, 1857 as Private of the 75th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Thomas Bernard Hackett

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 18th November, 1857 as Lieutenant in the 23rd Regiment of Foot, British Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Thomas Hancock

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place 19 June 1857 at Delhi, India as private in the 9th Lancers (The Queen's Royal), British Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Hugh Henry Gough

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 12th November, 1857 and 25th February, 1858 as Lieutenant of the 1st Bengal European Light Cavalry of the British Indian Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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William Hall

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th November, 1857 as Able Seaman of the HMS Shannon during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Hastings Edward Harrington

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14th - 22nd November 1857 as Lieutenant of the Bengal Horse Artillery during the Indian Mutiny.)
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John Harrison

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16 November, 1857 as Leading Seaman of the Naval Brigade during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th July, 1857 as Lieutenant in the 10th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Henry Hartigan

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 8th June and 10th October, 1857 as Sergeant of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Alfred Spencer Heathcote

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place from June to September, 1857 as Lieutenant of the 60th Rifles during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Samuel Hill

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th November 1857 as Sergeant of the 90th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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James Hills-Johnes

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 9th July, 1857 as Second Lieutenant of the Bengal Horse Artillery during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Robert Hawthorne

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on September 14th, 1857 as Bugler of the 52nd Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Joel Holmes

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on September 25, 1857 as Private of the 84th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Duncan Home

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14th September, 1857 as Lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Charles Irwin

(For conspicuous bravery on the 16th of November, 1857 as a Private in the 53rd Regiment of Foot (later The King's Shropshire Light Infantry), British Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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James Hollowell

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 26 September, 1857 as Private of the 78th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Anthony Home

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 26th September, 1857 as Surgeon of the 90th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Edward Jennings

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14-22nd November, 1857 as Rough Rider of the Bengal Horse Artillery during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Thomas Henry Kavanagh

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 9th November, 1857 as Civilian in the Bengal Civil Service during the Indian Mutiny.)
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William Alexander Kerr

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 10th July, 1857 as Lieutenant of the 24th Bombay Native Infantry during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Joseph Jee

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on September 25th, 1857 as Surgeon of the 78th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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John Kirk

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on the 4th of June, 1857 as a Private in the 10th Regiment of Foot (later The Lincolnshire Regiment) of the British Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Alfred Stowell Jones

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 8th June 1857 as Lieutenant of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers during Indian Mutiny.)
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George Lambert

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 29th June, 16th August and 25th September, 1857 as Sergeant Major of the 84th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Samuel Hill Lawrence

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 7th July, 1857 and 26th September, 1857 as Lieutenant of the 32nd Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Herbert MacPherson

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 25 September 1857 as a Lieutenant in the 78th Regiment of Foot of the British Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Patrick Mahoney

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 21st September, 1857 as Sergeant of the 1st Madras European Fusiliers during the Indian Mutiny.)
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David MacKay

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th November, 1857 as Private in the 93rd Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Ross Mangles

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 30th July, 1857 as a Civilian of the Bengal Civil Service during the Indian Mutiny.)
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William Fraser McDonell

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 30th July, 1857 as Civilian in the Bengal Civil Service during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Arthur Mayo

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22nd November, 1857 as Midshipman of the Indian Naval Brigade during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Francis Cornwallis Maude

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 25th September 1857 as Captain of the Royal Regiment of Artillery during the The Indian Mutiny.)
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John McGovern

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 23rd June, 1857 as Private in the 1st Bengal European Fusiliers, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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John Malcolmson

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 8th February 1857 as Lieutenant of the 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry during Anglo-Persian War.)
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James McGuire

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14th September, 1857 as Sergeant of the 1st Bengal Fusiliers during the Indian Mutiny. The V.C. was later forfeited.)
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James Kenny

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16 November 1857 as Private of the 53rd Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Patrick McHale

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 2nd October and 22nd December 1857 as Private in the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment of Foot, British Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Hugh McInnes

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14th November 1857 as Gunner of the Bengal Artillery during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Valentine McMaster

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 25th September, 1857 as Assistant surgeon of the 78th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Peter McManus

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 26th September 1857 as Private of the 5th Regiment of Foot during Indian Mutiny.)
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James Miller

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28th October, 1857 as Conductor in the Bengal Ordnance Depot, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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George Monger

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 18th November, 1857 as Private of the 723rd Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Arthur Thomas Moore

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 8th February 1857 as Lieutenant of the 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry during the Anglo-Persian War.)
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William Olpherts

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 25th September, 1857 as Captain of the Bengal Artillery during the Indian Mutiny.)
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William Oxenham

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 30th June, 1857 as Corporal of the 32nd Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Patrick Mylott

(He was approximately 37 years old, and a private in the 84th Regiment of Foot (later the 2nd Bn, York and Lancaster Regiment), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deeds took place for which he was awarded the VC: For being foremost in rushing across a road, under a shower of balls, to take an opposite enclosure; and for gallant conduct at every engagement at which he was present with his Regiment, from 12th of July, 1857, to the relief of the garrison. Elected by the private soldiers of the Regiment)
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James Munro

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th November 1857 as Colour Sergeant of the 93rd Regiment of Foot during Indian Mutiny.)
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James Park

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14th to 22nd of November, 1857 as Gunner of the Bengal Artillery during the Indian Mutiny.)
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John Paton

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th November 1857 as Sergeant of the 93rd Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Harry Prendergast

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 21st of November, 1857 as Lieutenant in the Madras Engineers, Madras Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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John Purcell

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 19th June, 1857 as Private of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Charles Pye

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 17th November 1857 as Sergeant Major of the 53rd Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 30th May 1857 to 18th September 1857 as Ensign of the 11th Bengal Native Infantry during Indian Mutiny.)
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Herbert Taylor Reade

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on September 14th and 16th, 1857 as Surgeon in the 61st Regiment, British Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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William Rennie

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 21st and 25th September, 1857 as Lieutenant of the 90th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny)
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George Renny

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th September 1857 as Lieutenant of the Bengal Horse Artillery during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Matthew Rosamund

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 4 June 1857 as a sergeant-major in the 37th Bengal Native Infantry, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Thomas Duffy

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 6 September 1857 as Private of the 1st Madras European Fusiliers during the Indian Mutiny.)
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William Raynor

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 11th May, 1857 as Lieutenant of the Bengal Veterans Establishment during the Indian Mutiny.)
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James Reynolds Roberts

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28th September 1857 as Private of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers during Indian Mutiny.)
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John Ryan

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 26th September, 1857 as Private of the 1st Madras European Fusiliers during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Miles Ryan

(Date of Act of Bravery, 14th September, 1857 At the assault on Delhi on the 14th September, 1857, when the Brigade had reached the Cabul Gate, the 1st Fusiliers and 75th Regiment, and some Sikhs, were waiting for orders, and some of the Regiments were getting ammunition served out (three boxes of which exploded from some cause not clearly known, and two others were in a state of ignition), when Serjeant McGuire and Drummer Ryan rushed into the burning mass, and, seizing the boxes, threw them, one after the other, over the parapet into the water. The confusion consequent on the explosion was very great, and the crowd of soldiers and native followers, who did not know where the danger lay, were rushing into certain destruction, when Serjeant McGuire and Drummer Ryan, by their coolness and personal daring, saved the lives of many at the risk of their own.)
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Philip Salkeld

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14th September 1857 as Lieutenant of the Bengal Sappers and Miners during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Robert Shebbeare

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14th September, 1857 as Lieutenant of the 60th Bengal Native Infantry during the Indian Mutiny.)
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John Smith

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14th September 1857 as Sergeant of the Bengal Sappers and Miners during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Henry Smith

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14th September, 1857 as Lance Corporal of the 52nd Regiment of Foot during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.)
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Nowell Salmon

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th November 1857 as Lieutenant of the Naval Brigade during Indian Mutiny.)
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John Sinnott

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 6 October 1857 as corporal of the 84th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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John Smith

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th November, 1857 as Private of the 1st Madras European Fusiliers during the Indian Mutiny.)
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William George Drummond Stewart

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th November 1857 as Captain of the 93rd Regiment of Foot during Indian Mutiny.)
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William Sutton

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 2 August 1857 to 13 September 1857 as Bugler of the 60th Rifles during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Edward Thackeray

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th September, 1857 as Second Lieutenant of the Bengal Sappers and Miners during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Henry Tombs

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 9th July, 1857 as Major of the Bengal Horse Artillery during the Indian Mutiny.)
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James Travers

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place in July, 1857 as Colonel in the 2nd Bengal Native Infantry during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Samuel Turner

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 19th June, 1857 as Private of the 60th Rifles during the Indian Mutiny.)
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George Waller

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14th September 1857 and 18th September 1857 as Colour-sergeant of the 60th Rifles during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Richard Wadeson

(In recognition of conspicuous bravery that took place on the 18th of July, 1857 as a lieutenant in the 75th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.)
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John Watson

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14th November, 1857 as Lieutenant of the 1st Punjab Cavalry during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Thomas Laughnan

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place from November 14th, 1857 to 22nd November, 1857 as Gunner of the Bengal Horse Artillery during the Indian Mutiny.)
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James Thompson

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 9 July 1857, as Private of the 60th Rifles during the Indian mutiny.)
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Robert Kells

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28 September, 1857 as Lance Corporal of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Jacob Thomas

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 27th September 1857 as Bombardier of the Bengal Artillery\tduring Indian Mutiny.)
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William Connolly

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 7 July, 1857 as Gunner of the Bengal Horse Artillery during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Stewart McPherson

(For daring gallantry in the Lucknow Residency on the 26th September, 1857, in having rescued, at great personal risk, a wounded Private of his Company, who was lying in a most exposed situation, under a very heavy fire. Colour-Serjeant McPherson of Unit 78th Highlanders, was also distinguished on many occasions by his coolness and gallantry in action.)
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Peter Gill

(He was a sergeant-major in the Loodiana Regiment, during the Indian Mutiny on 4 June 1857 at Benares, India when the deed took place. He volunteered, with Serjeant-Major Rosamond, of the 37th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, to bring in Captain Brown, Pension Paymaster, and his family, from a detached Bungalow to the Barracks, as above recorded, and saved the life of the Quartermaster-Sergeant of the 25th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, in the early part of the evening, by cutting off the head of the Sepoy who had just bayonetted him. Serjeant-Major Gill states, that on the same night he faced a Guard of 27 men, with only a Serjeant's sword; and it is also represented that he twice saved the life of Major Barrett, 27th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, when attacked by Sepoys.)