The book of the Vc a Record of the Deeds of Heroism for Which the Victoria Cr
The book of the Vc a Record of the Deeds of Heroism for Which the Victoria Cr
A L Arthur Lincoln Haydon
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I have mentioned the Naval Brigade in connection with the attack on the Shah Nujeef. Peel's gallant bluejackets, whom we last met doing great things at Sebastopol, had been hurried to India from their station at Hong Kong, immediately news arrived of the outbreak of the Mutiny ; and after smelling powder at Cawnpore and other places they accom- panied the relief army to Lucknow. Eight up under the frowning walls of the mosque did they run their useful 24-pounders, as coolly as if " laying along...side an enemy's frigate, " to use Sir Colin's own words. But the guns were not powerful enough to break down the masonry. Despite the obvious hopelessness of the task, however, Lieutenant Young and Seaman William Hall (a negro, be it noted) fearlessly stood by their gun, reloading and pounding away at the wall under a most deadly fire, and only desisting when the order eventually came to fall back. They both got the V. C. For that gallant action. The other Crosses that fell to the Naval men in the same fight were won by a young lieutenant whose OTHER CROSSES OF THE MUTINY 117 name still figures on the Active List as Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon, G.
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