The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-17 00:00:00

THE VICTORIA CROSS.

(From the London Gazette of this Evening.)
WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 16.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her in-
tention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on
the undermentioned officers, whose claims to the same have
been submitted for her Majesty's approval, on account of
acts of bravery performed by them in India, as recorded
against their names, viz.:—
Lieutenant (now Captain) Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken,
late 13th Bengal Native Infantry (now of the Bengal Staff
Corps)—For various acts of gallantry performed during
the defence of the Residency of Lucknow, from the
30th of June to the 22d of November, 1857 :-
1. On three different occasions, Lieutenant Aitken
. u i o ::tratidc
eekrFe dt:
went into the garden under the enemy's loopholes in the
" Captain's Bazaar." On two of these occasions, he brought
out a number of bullocks which had been left in the garden ;
—subsequently, on the 3d of July, the enemy having set
fire to the Bhoosa Stock in the garden, and it being appre-
hended that the fire would reach the powder magazine
which hat' been left there, Lieutenant Aitken, accompanied
aa Lured
nad i n at, htthteefthooreceend
by other officers, went into the garden, and cut down till the
tents the
tents which might have communicated the
powder. This was done, close to the enem
most clan-
under a bright light from the flames. It w2aos the enemy
geroas service. 2. On the night of Aug.._eu. Alen was
having set fire to the Baillie Guard Gaz,..li,2•oola7opoys
the first man in the gateway, and, sts . r vitiany opened
and a water •carrier of his regi"ttisknetry7
the gate under a heavy fire of repivr saved the gate,
removed the burning wood oaf
duce; led on 12 sepoys
thfeinh; 0
re4g.
gate
Omnoe ntitth,
tehhee asrsia:ult d '
3. On the evening of Sept 25, ~."
;,eivt.neaansl
enabled
ee
dcla solelysubso:q of attacking two guns
of his regiment, for the 19 !Po
Havelock 's second-
opposite the gate referriedr,th3:Bl2; column,
turned op the late Ma.,o
Terse
morningof
Sept, 26,
raprnre
dee prevent
took
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with
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it, until, white:
palace he On this occasion
September,gh u i
still
s thi l
etad scsobispranglanroatLtaiavnl i
assistance
:crane:et:.
from shutting •
assaulting party were thus,
enemy from
and the
s ll wicket gat
uoofcess of the attack ihneghtttoertthieis
oenftitheer'2B9thd.
" rush ' The
in, complete s
Aitken volunteered to take a gun wisthiine
firing, taking with him four soldiers through the houses
the houses, but The enemy fired on this party from
they held their ground, until a stronger
party coming up,thegun was upset from its carriage, and
taken into the Residency.taken. Another gun v, as subsequently

Lieut. Chas. Augustus Goodfellow, late Bombay Engi-
items (now of the Royal Engineers)—For gallant c,n-
duct at the attack on the Fort of Beyt, on the 6th Oct.,
1859. On that occasion a soldier of the 28th Regiment
was shot under the walls of the fort. Lieut. Good'ellow
rushed under the walls, under a sharp fi e of match-
locks, and bore off the body of the soldier, who was then
dead, bat whom he at first supposed to be wounded only.