THE VICTORIA CROSS AWARDED TO CORPORAL WILLIAM GOATE, 9TH ( QUEEN'S ROYAL ) LANCERS, HAS BEEN SOLD AT AUCTION BY SOTHEBY'S OF LONDON.
11 May 1999


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Medal entitlement of Corporal William Goate,
9th ( Queen's Royal ) Lancers

  • Victoria Cross
  • Indian Mutiny Medal ( 1857-58 )
    • 3 clasps:
    • "Delhi" - "Relief of Lucknow" - "Lucknow"


The Victoria Cross and campaign medal awarded to Corporal William Goate, 9th ( Queen's Royal ) Lancers, have been sold at auction by Sotheby's of London for a sale hammer price of £29,900. The VC was purchased by William Goate's regiment the 9th / 12th Royal Lancers ( Prince of Wales's ).


For the award of the Victoria Cross

[ London Gazette, 24 December 1858 ], Luckow, Indian Mutiny, 6 March 1858, Corporal William Goate, 9th ( Queen's Royal ) Lancers.

For conspicuous gallantry at Lucknow, on the 6th of March 1858, in having dismounted, in the presence of a number of the enemy, and taken up the body of Major Smyth, 2nd Dragoon Guards, which he attempted to bring off the field, and after being obliged to relinquish it, being surrounded by the enemy’s cavalry, he went a second time under a heavy fire to recover the body.

( Despatch from Major-General Sir James Hope Grant KCB, dated 8th April 1858 ).

William Goate was invested with his Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on the 4th January 1860.


William Goate died on the 26th October 1901 at Southsea, Hampshire, and was buried in the town's Highland Road Cemetery.

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Iain Stewart, 11 May 1999