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The Victoria Cross—Services.
protected by high palisades, the embrasures being closed with sliding shutters. On reaching the battery.
Lieutenant Browne removed the shutters iind jumped into the battery. The result u-as that the guns were spiked
and it is sujiposed that about one hundred of the enemy were killed.
Browne, Major Samuel James, 46th Bengal Native Infantry {now Lieut. General Sir,KCB.KCSI.,Bengal StafifCorps).
For having at Scerporah, in an engagoment withthe rebel forces under Khan Alie Khan, on the3ist August 1S5S.
whilst advancing upon the enemy's position at daybreak, pushed on with one orderly sowar upon a g-pounder
gun that was commanding one of the approaches to the enemy's position, and attacked the gunners, therob\
preventing them from reloading and firing upon the infantry, who were advancing to the attack. In doing this r,
personal conflict ensued, in which Major Browne, Commandant of the 2nd ruujab Cavalry, received a sever<
sword-cut wound on the left knee, and shortly afterwards another sword-cut wound, which severed the left arm at
the shoulder, not, however, before he had succeeded in cutting down one of his assailants. The gun was prevented
from being reloaded, and was eventually cajjtured by the infantry, and the gunner slain.
BuLLEE, Captain and St.Lt. Colonel Redvers Henry, CB. Cili"©. 60 Rifles (now CcZonfO.—For his gallant conduct at
the retreat at Inhlobana, on the 28th March 1879, in having assisted, whilst hotly pursued by Zulus, in rescuing
Captain C. D'Arcy, of the Frontier Light Horse, who was retiring on foot, and caiTying him on his horse until he
overtook the rearguard. Also for having on the same date, and under the same circumstances, conveyed Lieu¬
tenant C. Evoritt, of the Frontier Light Horse, whose horse had been killed under him, to a place of safety. Later
on. Colonel BuUer, in the same mani'.er, saved a trooper of the Frontier Light Horse, whose horse w as comnletelj
exhausted, and who otherwise would have been killed by the Zulus, who were within eighty yards of him.
Bdtler, ite«<ena«< Thomas Ahair, ist European Bengal Fusiliers (now J/onoroj-i/Jfa'/or, retired on a pension).
—Date of act of bravery, gth March 1858.—" Of which success the skirmishers on the other side of the rivei'
were subsequently apprised by Lioutouant Butler, of the Bengal Fusiliers, who swam across the Goomtee, and,
climbing the parapet, remained in that position for a considerable time under a heav,y fire of musketry until the
TTOrk was occupied."—Extract of Lieutenant Q-eneral Sir James Oiitram's Memorandum of Operations carried on tindei
his command at the Siege of Liicknow, jmhlished in the Governor General's Gazette Extraordinary of ^th A^rril i&s^, am'
republished in General Orders by the Commander in Chief in India on ■2'jth December 1858.
Cadeil, Lieutenant Thomas, 2nd European Bengal Fusiliers (now Captain Bengal Staff Corps).—For having, on
the 12th June 1857, at the Flagstaff Piquet at Delhi, when the whole of the piquet of Her Majesty's 75th
Regiment and 2ud European Bengal Fusiliers were driven in by a large body of the enemy, brought in from
amongst the enemy a wounded Bugler of his own regiment, under a most severe fire, who would otherwise have
been cut up by the rebels. Also, on the same day, when the Fusiliers were retiring, by order, on Metoalfe's house,
on its being reported that there was a wounded man left behind. Lieutenant Cadell v^ent back of his own accord
towards the enemy, accompanied by three men, and brought in a man of the 75th Regiment, who was severely
wounded, under a most heav.y fire from the advancing enemy.
Cafb, Captain William Martin, 56th Bengal Native Infantry (now Colonel).—Date of act of bravery, 15th
April 1858.—Forbearing away, under a heavy fire, with the assistance of Privates Thompson, Crowie, Spence,
and Cook, the body of Lieutenant Willoughby, lying near the ditch of the Fort of Ruhya, and for running to the
rescue of Private Spence, who had been severely wounded in the attempt.
Cameron, Lieutenatit Aylneii Spicer, 72ndHighlanders [nowSt.Lt.Colonel 25thRegt.).—For conspicuous bravery
on the 30th March 1858, at Kotah, in having headed a small party of men, and attacked a body of armed fanatic
rebels, strongly posted in a ioopjholed house, with one narrow entrance. Lieutenant Cameron stormed the house,
and killed three rebels in single combat. He was severely wounded, having lost half of one hand by a stroke
from a tulwar.
Channee, Captain George Nicolas, Bengal Staff Corps (now 3t.Lt.Colonel).—For having with the greatest
gallantry been the first to jump into the Enemy's Stockade, to which he had been despatched with a small party of
the ist Ghoorkha Light Inlantry, on the afternoon of the 20th December 1875, by the Officer commanding the Malacca
Column to procure intelligence as to its strength, position, &c. Major Channer got completely in rear of the
Enemy's position, and finding himself so close that he could hear the voices of the men inside, who were cooking
at the time, and keeping no look-out, he beckoned to his men, and the whole party stole quietly forward to within a
few paces of the Stockade. On jumping in, he shot the first man dead with his revolver, and his party then came
up, and entered the Stockade, which was of a most formidable nature, surrounded by a bamboo palisade; about
seven yards within was a log-house, loop-holed, with two narrow entrances, and trees laid latitudinally, to the
thickness of two feet. The officer commanding re])orts that if Major Channer, b.y his foresight, coolness, and
intrepidity, had not taken this Stockade, a great loss of life must have occurred, as from the fact of his being
unable to bring guns to bear on it, from the steepness of the hill, and t'ne density of the jungle, it must have been
taken at the point of the bayonet.
Chaplin, Ensign John Worthy, 67th Regiment {now Lieutenant Co/oweZ 8th Hussars).—Date of act of bravery,
14th August i860.—For distinguished gallantry at the North Taku Fort (China). This Oflacer was carrying the
Queen's Colour of the regiment, and first planted the Colours on the breach made by the storming party, assisted
by Private Lane of the 67th Regiment, and subsequently on the cavaUer of the fort, which he was the first to mount.
In doing this he was severely wounded.
Chard, Lieutenant John Rouse Merriott, Royal Engineers (now Brevet Major), and Bromheab, Xtew/ewrtn^ '
Gonville, 24th Foot (now Breoet Major).—For their gallant conduct at the defence of Rorke's Drift on the occasion
of the attack by the Zulus on the 22nd and 23rd January 1879. The Lieutenant General commanding the troops
reports that, hardit not been lor the flue example and excellent beha'viour of these two officers under the most trying
circumstances, the defence of Rorke's Drift post would not have been conducted with that intelligence and tenacity
which so essentiall.y characterised it. The Lieutenant- General adds, that its success must, in a great degree, be
attributable to the two young ofticei's who exercised the chief command on the occasion in question.
Clifford, Lieutenant Honorable Henry Hugh, Rifle Brigade (now Major General Hon. Sir Henry Hugh, 03.
XCMG).—For conspicuous courage at the battle of Inkcrman, in leading a charge and killing one of the enemy
with his sword, disabling another, and saving the life of a soldier.
CocaR.'L'Si., Lieutenant and Adjutant Hugh Stewart, 86t'n Regiment (now Colonel 43rd Foot).—For conspicuous
gallantry near Jhansi on the 1st April 1858, when No. i Company of the regiment was ordered to take a gun,
in dasliing forward at a galloji, imder a heavy musketry and artillery fii'e, di-iving the enemy fiom the gun, and
keeping possession of it till the Cfunpany came up. Also for conspicuous gallantry in attacking the rear-guard of
the enemy, when he had three horses shot under him in succession.
CoNOLLY', Lieutenant John Augustus, 4gth Regiment (now Lieutenant Colonel retired).—In the attack by the
Russians against the position hold by the Second Division, 26th October 1854, Lieutenant Conolly, while in com¬
mand of a Company of that regiment on outlying picket, made himself most conspicuous by the gallantry of his
behaviour. He came particularly under the observation of the late Field Marsha! Lord Raglan, while in personal
encounter with several Russians in defence of his post. He ultimately fell dangerously wounded. Lieutenant
Conolly was highly praised in General Orders and promoted into the Coldstream Guards as a reward for his
exemplary behaviour on this occasion.
Creagh, Captain O'MooKE, Bombay Staff Corps (now Brevet Major).—On the zist April Captain Creagh was de¬
tached from Dakka with two companies of his battalion to jirotect the village of Kam Dakka, on the Cabul River,
against a threatened incursion of the Mohmunds, and reached that place the eame night. On the following morn¬
ing the detachment, 130 men, ,was attacked by the Mohmunds in overwhelming numbers, about 1500; and the
inhabitants of Kam Dakka having themselves taken part with the enemy. Captain Creagh found himself under
the necessity of retiring from the village. He took up a position in a cemetery not far off, which he made as
defensible as circumstances would admit of, and this position he held against all the efforts of the enemy, re¬
peatedly repulsing them with the bn,yonet until three o'clock in the afternoon, when he was relieved by a detach¬
ment sent for the purpose from Dakka. The enemy were then finally repulsed, and being charged by a troop of
the Toth Bengal Lancers, uu'lcr the command of Captain D. M. Strong, were routed and broken, and great numbers
of them driven into the river. The Commander in Chief in India has expressed his opinion that but for the cool¬
ness, determination, and gallantry oftlio highest order, and the admirable conduct which Captain Cireagh dis¬
played on this occasion, the detachment under his command would, in all probability, hi,vo been cutofi'and
destroyed.