Awarded for Valour_ A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of the British Concept of Heroism

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  1. PRO File WO/98/3. Letter from Jonathan Peel to Major General Sir Charles Yorke, 29
    September 1856.

  2. PRO File WO/98/2, Letter from G. C. Mundy to Colonel O’Connor, 16 October 1856.

  3. J. W. Fortescue,A History of the British Army(London: MacMillan, 1899–1930), XIII,
    232–3.

  4. Ibid., pp. 231–2.

  5. ‘Army Regulations,’Times31 July 1858, 8.

  6. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from Colonel William Denny, Officer Commanding 41st
    Regiment, to Adjutant General, 8 December 1856. Of similar flavor were the 66th
    Regiment’s returns for Crimea: ‘I have the honor to forward blank reports of soldiers
    recommended for the Order of the Victoria Cross as under the terms of the Warrant I
    do not feel justified in recommending any officer or soldier for that distinction.’ Letter
    from F. I. Argyll, 66th Regiment, to Adjutant General 1 January 1857.

  7. Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Angus Fairrie, Cameron Barracks, Inverness, 26 July
    1995.

  8. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Richard Waddy, Officer
    Commanding, 50th Regiment to Adjutant General Gen. 26 October 1856; Letter and
    enclosure from Major Frederick Wilkinson, 42nd Regiment, to Adjutant General, 6
    December 1856.

  9. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from Colonel A. H. Ferryman, Officer Commanding 89th
    Regiment to Adjutant General, 26 November 1856. Fisher did not receive the VC.

  10. PRO File WO/98/2. Regimental VC forms, 47th Regiment.

  11. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from Colonel Henry Warre, Officer Commanding 57th
    Regiment, to War Office, 24 October 1856.

  12. See appendix for full text of the Victoria Cross Warrants.

  13. PRO File WO/98/2. Official Recommendation from 57th Regiment, Malta, to War
    Office, London, 24 October 1856. Enclosures for Officers missing.

  14. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Henry Daubeney to Adjutant
    General 25 December 1856; Recommendation form for George Fair, MD, 11 March
    1858, signed Lieutenant Colonel Henry Daubeney; Letter from Lieutenant Colonel
    Henry Daubeney to Major General Sir J. H. Shoedde, KCB, undated.

  15. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from Colonel Henry Warre to Lieutenant General John
    L. Pennefather, 9 April 1857; Letter from Colonel Warre to Lieutenant General Love, 16
    April 1857; Letter from Lieutenant General John L. Pennefather to Adjutant General, 12
    April 1857.

  16. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from Lieutenant General John L. Pennefather to Horse
    Guards, 16 October 1856.

  17. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from Lieutenant General Sir DeLacy Evans, GCB, to Colonel
    Henry Daubeney,? June 1855.

  18. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Henry Daubeney to Lieutenant
    General John L. Pennefather, 16 December 1856.

  19. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from Lieutenant General John L. Pennefather to War
    Office,? January 1857.

  20. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Henry Daubeney to Adjutant
    General, 25 December 1856.

  21. Register, 24, 103.

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