The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-25 00:00:00

WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 24.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her in-
tention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on
the undermentioned Officer, Non-commissioned Officers
and soldiers of her Majesty's Army and Indian Military
Forces, whose claims to the same have been submitted for
her Majesty's approval, on the recommendation of the Com-
mtuvler-in-Chief in India; on account of Acts of Bravery
performed by them in that country, as recorded against
their several names; viz. :
Lieutenant Richard IVadeson, 75th Regiment—For con-
spicuous bravery at Delhi on the 18th of July, 1857, when
the Regiment was engazed in the Subjee Mundee, in having
saved the life of Private Michael Farrell, when attacked by
a sowar of the enemy's cavalry, and killing the Sowar.
Also, on the same day, for rescuing Private John Barry,
of the same regiment, when, wounded and helpless, he was
attacked by a cavalry sowar, whom Lieutenant Wadeson
killed.

Private P. Donohoe, 9th Lancers—For having, at Bo-
lundshahur, on the 28th of September, 1856, gone to the
support of Lieutenant Blair, who had boen severely wounded,
and, with a few other men, brought that officer in
safety through a large body of the ejlemy's cavalry.
Private J. Freeman, 9th Lancers—For conspicuous gal-
lantry on the 10th of October, 1857, at Agra, in having
;one to the assistance of Lieutenant Jones, who had been
shot, killing the leader of the enemy's cavalry, and de-
fending Lieut. Jones against several of the enemy.
Private J. R. Roberts, 9th Lancers—For conspicuous
gallantry at Bolundshahur, on the 28th of September, 1857,
in bringing a comrade, Mortally wounded, through a street
under a heavy musketry fire, in which service he was him-
self wounded.

Lance-Corporal R.-Kells, 9th Lancers-For conspicuous
bravery at Bolundshahur, on the 28th September, 1857, in.
defending against a number of the enemy his commanding
officer, Captain Drysdale, "who was lying in a street with
his collar-bone broken, his horse having been disabled by a
shot, and remaining with himuntil out of danger.
Lieutenant (now Brevet-Major) James Leith, 14th Light
Dragoons (now of the 6th Dragoons)---For conspicuous
bravery at Betwah, on the Ist of April, 1858, in having
charged alone, and rescued Captain Need, of the same Re-
giment, when surrounded by a large-number of rebel In-
fantry. , -

Sergeant W. Napier, 13th Regiment (Ist Battalion)—
For conspicuous gallantry near Azimghur, on the 6th of
April, 1858, in having defended, and finally rescued, Pri-
vate Benjamin Milnes, of the same Regiment, . when se-
verely wounded on the Baggage Guard. Sergeant Napier
remained with him at the hazard of his life, when
surrounded by-Sepoys, bandaged his wound under fire, and
then carried him in safety to the convoy.
Lieutenant and Adjutant (now Captain) Hugh Stewart
Cochrane, 86th Regiment (now of the 16th Regiment)—
For conspicuous gallantry near Jhausi, onthe Ist of April,
1858, when No. 1 Company of the Regiment was ordered
to take a gun, in dashinc, forward at a gallop, under a heavy
musketry and artillerffire, driving the enemy from the
gun, and keeping possession of it till the company came up.
Also for conspicuous gallantry in attacking the rear-guard
of the enemy, when he had three horses shot under him in
succession.

Lieutenant and Adjutant William Rennie, 90th Regi-
ment—For conspicuous gallantry in the advance upon
Lucknow, under the late Major-General Havelock, on the
21st Sept., 1857, in having charged the enemy's guns ilk
advance of the skirmishers of the 90th Light Infantry,
wider a heavy musketry fire, and prevented them dragging
off one gun, which was consequently captured. For con-
spicuous gallantry on the 25th Sept., 1857, in having
charged in advance of the 90th column, in the face of a
heavy fire of grape, and forced the enemy to abandon their
guns.

Lieutenant John James M'Leod Innes—At the action
at Sultanpore, Lieutenant Innes, far in advance of the
leading skirmishers, was the first to secure a gun which the
enemy were abandoning. Retiring from this, they rallied
round another gun further back, from which the shot
would, in another instant, have ploughed through our ad-
vancing columns, when Lieut. Innes rode up, unsupported,
shot the gunner who was about to apply the match, and,
remaining undaunted at his post, the mark for a hundred
matchlock men, who were sheltered in some adjoining huts,
kept the Artillerymen arbay, until assistance reached him.
Bombardier J. Thomas, 4th Company, Ist Battalion Ben-
gal Artillery—For distinguished gallantry at Lucknow on
the 27th September, 1857, in having brought off on his
back, under a heavy fire, under circumstances of consider •
able difficulty, a wounded soldier of the Madras Fusiliers,
when the party to which he was attached was returning to
the Residency from a sortie, whereby he saved him from
falling into the hands of the enemy.
Sergeant J. M'Guire' Ist European Bengal Fusiliers—
At the assault on Delhi on the 14th Sept., 1857, when the
Brigade had reached the Cabul Gate, the Ist Fusiliers and
75th Regiment, and some Sikhs, were waiting for orders,
and some of the regiments were getting ammunition served
out (three boxes of which exploded from some cause not
known, and two others wore in a state of ignition), when
Sergeant M'Guire and Drummer Ryan rushed into the
burning mass, and seizing the boxes, threw them, one after
the other, over the parapet into the water. The confusion
consequent on the explosion was-very great, and the crowd
of soldiers and native followers, who did not know where
the danger lay, were rushing into .ertaindestruction, when
Sergeant M'Guire and Drummer Ryan, by their coolness
and personal daring, saved the lives of many at the risk of
their own.

MEMORANDUM.—Cornet William George Hawtrey
Bankes, 7th Hussars, upon whom the Commander-in-Chief
in India has reported that the decoration of the Victoria
Cross has been provisionally conferred, for conspicuous
gallantry, in thrice charging a body of infuriated fanatics,
who had rushed on the guns employed in shelling a small
mud fort in the vicinity of Moosa-Bagh, Lucknow, on the
19th of March, 1868—of the wounds received on which occa-
sion he subsequently died—would have been recommended
to her Majesty for confirmation in that distinction, had he
survived.

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