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Victoria Cross Collection

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1. SPECIMEN, UN-ISSUED VICTORIA CROSS

CRIMEAN WAR ( 1854-56 )
Rank First Name Last Name Force
Rear Admiral John BYTHESEA Royal Navy
Admiral John Edmund COMMERELL Royal Navy
Boatswain Henry COOPER Royal Navy
Boatswain's Mate Henry CURTIS Royal Navy ( Naval Brigade )
Lieutenant Edward St John DANIEL Royal Navy ( Naval Brigade )
Major General Howard Crawfurd ELPHINSTONE Corps of Royal Engineers
Captain of Foretop Thomas REEVES Royal Navy ( Naval Brigade )
Chief Officer William Thomas RICKARD Royal Navy
Petty Officer Mark SCHOLEFIELD Royal Navy ( Naval Brigade )

INDIAN MUTINY ( 1857-58 )
Rank First Name Last Name Force
Mr George CHICKEN Indian Naval Brigade ( Volunteer )
Lieutenant John Charles DAUNT Bengal Military Police Battalion
Private James DAVIS 42nd Regiment ( Black Watch )
Sergeant Dennis DYNON 53rd Regiment ( King's Shropshire Light Infantry )
Private John FREEMAN 9th ( Queen's Royal ) Lancers
Sergeant Major William GARDNER 42nd Regiment ( The Black Watch )
General Sir Charles GOUGH Corps of Guides Cavalry & Hodson's Horse
Lieutenant General John Christopher GUISE 90th Regiment ( Cameronians )
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Bernard HACKETT 23rd Regiment ( Royal Welch Fusiliers )
Captain William Alexander KERR Southern Mahratta Horse, Indian Army
Lieutenant General Harry Hammon LYSTER Staff - Central India Field Force, Indian Army
Mr William Fraser MCDONELL Bengal Civil Service ( Magistrate at Sarun )
Private Robert NEWELL 9th ( Queen's Royal ) Lancers
Sergeant John PEARSON 8th ( King's Royal Irish ) Hussars
Ensign Everard Aloysius PHILLIPPS 60th Rifles ( ex-11th Bengal N.I. ) ( unofficial VC )
Colonel William Francis WALLER 25th Bombay Native Infantry, Indian Army
General John WATSON 1st Punjab Irregular Cavalry, Indian Army

Small Wars & Boer War

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8 November 2006