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Corporal William James LENDRIM VC |
| Born: | Ireland - 1 January 1830 | 
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| Died: | Camberley, Surrey - 28 November 1891 | ||
| Burial details: | Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst Grave No 182 | ||
| Corps service: | Enlisted into the Royal Sappers and Miners in 1845, aged 15 as a bugler. After the Crimean War he was posted to 23rd Company which was divert from a posting to China to take part in the Indian Mutiny (1857). He was at the relief of Lucknow. On his return to England he evenually became a sergeant major of field works at the Royal Military and Staff Colleges. Sergeant-Major Lendrim also held the Légion d'Honneur and Medal Militaire of France | ||
| VC awarded: | Won VC at Sebastopol, Crimea, on 14 February 1855. (Crimean War 1854-56) | ||
| VC unit: | 7th Company, Royal Sappers and Miners. | ||
| VC presented: | VC presented by Queen Victoria at Hyde Park on 26 June 1857. | ||
| VC citation: | Recommended for intrepidity - getting on top of a magazine
and extinguishing sandbags which were burning, and making a breach
under fire, 11 April 1855. For courage and praiseworthy example in
superintending 150 French Chasseurs, on 14 February 1855, in building
No 9 Battery, left attack [the citation must be mistaken here,
all other sources indicate that Lendrim was in the Right attack on
this occasion], and replacing the whole of the capsized gabions
[cylindrical wicker or metal baskets] under a heavy fire.
Was one of four volunteers for destroying the farthest rifle-pit on
20 April. (London Gazette: 24 February 1857) |
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| VC location: | Royal Engineers Museum | ||
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Additional material: SC Fenwick, FoREM Links to further reading:
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