Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Born: 5 February 1821, Avranches, Brittany, France
Died: 8 January 1905, Pembury, Kent
Citation: On the 17th April, 1855, about 2 P.M., when the battery he commanded was blown up by a shell from the enemy, which burst in the Magazine, destroyed the parapets, killed and wounded ten men, disabled five guns, and covered a sixth with earth; for most gallantly re-opening fire with the remaining gun before the enemy had ceased cheering from their parapets (on which they had mounted) and fighting it until sunset, despite the heavy concentrated fire of the enemy's batteries, and the ruined state of his own.[London Gazette issue 21971 dated 24 Feb 1857, published 24 Feb 1857.]
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