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Lieutenant Wilbraham Oates LENNOX VC |
| Born: | Goodwood, Sussex - 4 August 1830 | 
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| Died: | London - 7 February 1897 | ||
| Burial details: | Woodvale Cemetery, Bear Road, Brighton, family vault (Grave 47/48/49) | ||
| Corps service: | Commissioned into the Corps in 1848, after which he was posted to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where he served until he was posted to the Crimea. After the war he served with the 23rd Company during the Indian Mutiny. In 1870 as a brevet colonel he was sent as military attaché to the German Army during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). In 1882 he commanded a Brigade during the Egyptian Expedition. He ended his army career as Lieutenant General Sir Wilbraham Lennox, VC, KCB. | ||
| VC awarded: | Won VC at Sebastopol, Crimea, on 20 November 1854. (Crimean War 1854-56). His was the first Royal Engineer VC winner. | ||
| VC unit: | Royal Engineers attached. | ||
| VC presented: | VC sent out by War Office to Hong Kong on 26 June 1857, probably presented in England on his return from India. | ||
| VC citation: | Cool and gallant conduct in establishing a lodgment
in Tryon's Rifle Pit, and assisting to repel the assaults of the enemy.
This brilliant operation drew forth a special order form General Canrobert. (London Gazette: 24 February 1857) The disappointments due to the prolongation of the siege of Sevastopol led to General François Certain Canrobert's resignation of the French Army command, but he did not return to France, preferring to serve as chief of his old division almost up to the fall of Sevastopol. |
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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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