page_title: Thomas Esmonde (VC)
section_title: Details
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Esmonde (VC) / Details
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Grafmonument van Thomas Esmonde op de Centrale Begraafplaats (Brugge), vak 4. English: Grave of Thomas Esmonde (VC), (Central Cemetery, Bruges, plot 4)
context_page_description: Thomas Esmonde, VC was a British Army officer and an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
context_section_description: Esmonde was 26 years old, and a captain in the 18th Regiment of Foot (later The Royal Irish Regiment) in the British Army during the Crimean War when the following deed took place and for which he was awarded the VC.
  On 18 June 1855 at Sebastopol, Crimean Peninsula, after being engaged in the attack on the Redan, Captain Esmonde repeatedly assisted, at great personal risk, in rescuing wounded men from exposed situations. Also, on 20 June while in command of a covering party he rushed to a spot where a fireball from the enemy had just lodged, and extinguished it before it could betray the position of his men, thus saving the party from a murderous fire of shell and grape which was immediately opened where the fireball had fallen.
  Esmonde later achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel before selling his commission in December 1868.
caption: Grave of Thomas Esmonde (Central Cemetery, Bruges, plot 4)
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