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/32/7345. Memo from Edward Pennington to Edward Luggard, War
    Office, 25 July 1862.

  2. Clarke,Gallantry Medals, 75, 84–5.

  3. See appendix for full text of the royal warrant and amendments.
    CHAPTER 4

  4. Charles E. Callwell,Small Wars: Their Principle and Practice(London: HMSO, 1906; reprint,
    Greenhill Books, 1990), 78–84.

  5. James Cowan,The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering
    Period(Wellington, NZ: n.p., 1922; reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1969), 179. His
    recommendation did not include the detail of the motivating factor of a ten pound
    gratuity.

  6. PRO file WO/32/7354. Cover Memo of Recommendation Packet, Edward Pennington
    to Edward Lugard, 14 July 1860; Memo, Edward Lugard to Secretary of State For War,
    17 July 1860.

  7. PRO File WO/32/7354. Letter from Edward Pennington to Edward Lugard, 23
    February 1861.

  8. PRO file WO/32/7354. Letter from Edward Lugard to the Secretary of State For War,
    25 February 1861.

  9. The storming of the Taku Fort was also noteworthy as it produced one of the two
    contenders for the youngest VC winner, Hospital Apprentice Andrew Fitzgibbon, aged
    15 years 3 months at the time of the act. The other contender, Drummer Thomas
    Flinn, won his Cross three years earlier at Cawnpore during the Mutiny. Flinn was
    unable to give an exact date of birth, so neither man can claim being the youngest.

  10. PRO File WO/32/7356. Letter from Lieutenant General Sir James Hope Grant to the
    Military Secretary, 22 June 1861.

  11. John Selby, ‘The Third China War, 1860,’ in Brian Bond, ed.,Victorian Military Campaigns
    (New York: Frederick A Praeger, 1967), 76–7.

  12. PRO File WO/32/7356. Undated Memo from Horse Guards to War Office.

  13. D. G. Chandler, ‘The Expedition to Abyssinia,’ in Brian Bond,Victorian Military Campaigns
    (New York: Frederick Praeger, 1967), 145.

  14. Ibid., p. 148.

  15. Register, 29, 213.

  16. PRO File WO/32/7370. Letter from Edward Lugard to Under-Secretary of Colonial
    Affairs, 26 April, 1865.

  17. Geoffrey W. Rice, ed.,The Oxford History of New Zealand(Oxford: Oxford University Press,
    1992), 101; Peter Burroughs, ‘An Unreformed Army?’, in David Chandler and Ian
    Beckett, eds,The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army(Oxford: Oxford University
    Press, 1994), 176

  18. PRO File WO/32/7370. Letter from Major Charles Heaphy to Prime Minister Lord
    Palmerston, 28 August 1864.

  19. PRO File WO/32/7370. Letter from Colonial Office to War Office 22 November
    1865, including affidavits gathered by the New Zealand Government.

  20. PRO File WO/32/7370. Letter from the Duke of Somerset, Admiralty, to Lord Hart-
    ington, Secretary at War, 23 April 1866.

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