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  1. Ibid., p. 213.

  2. William Forbes-Mitchell,Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny(n.p., 1893), 42–3; Farwell,Queen
    Victoria’s Little Wars, 126.

  3. Register, 44.

  4. Ibid., p. 306.

  5. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from Colonel Henry Warre, Depot Malta, to Lieutenant
    General John L. Pennefather, 31 October 1857.

  6. W. J. Reader,At Duty’s Call: A Study in Obsolete Patriotism(Manchester: Manchester University
    Press, 1988), 10.

  7. H. D. Hutchinson,The Campaign in Tirah, 1897–1898(London: Macmillan, 1898), 242–5.

  8. PRO File WO/98/2. Letter from G. C. Mundy to Major General Sir Charles Yorke, 25
    February 1856.

  9. General Sir Ian Hamilton,Listening for the Drums(London: Faber & Faber, 1944), 91–2.

  10. Ian B. M. Hamilton,The Happy Warrior: A Life of General Sir Ian Hamilton, GCB, GCMG, DSO
    (London: Cassell, 1966), 41–6, 134–5, 145. (The author is the nephew of Sir Ian.)

  11. Hamilton,Listening For the Drums, 93.

  12. Ibid., p. 145–6.

  13. PRO File WO/32/7489. Special Coronation Supplement toThe London Gazette.

  14. See Appendix for full text of all VC Warrants.

  15. PRO file WO/32/7313. Documents related to the case of Wm Stanlake. Letter from Sir
    Henry Storks to Lord Panmure, n.d., 1857.

  16. PRO file WO/32/7313. Documents related to the case of Wm Stanlake.

  17. The Hampshire Chronicle, 5 December1863; ‘The End of A Victoria Cross Man’United Services
    Gazette, 9 April 1864.

  18. Imperial War Museum. Lummis File of Gunner James Colliss.

  19. Information from victoriacross.org.uk website, accessed 25 August 2004.

  20. See Chapter 4 for details of Lane’s VC. Imperial War Museum Lummis File of Private
    Thomas Lane.

  21. Imperial War Museum. Lummis File of Sergeant Thomas McGuire.

  22. PRO File WO/32/7346. The Claim of Private Samuel Morely, Second Battalion, Military
    Train; Imperial War Museum. Lummis File of Private Michael Murphy. Lummis incor-
    rectly identifies the individual as ‘private’ rather than ‘farrier.’

  23. Imperial War Museum. Lummis File of Private George Ravenhill.

  24. Register, 82.

  25. PRO file WO/32/7358. Letters from Admiralty to War Office and War Office to
    Admiralty, 29 July 1861, 2 August 1861, 5 August 1861; Letter from Edward Pennington
    to Edward Lugard, 27 August 1861.

  26. Michael Daniels, ‘Midshipman Edward St. John Daniels’ http://www.mdani.demon.
    co.uk/esjd/esjdweb.htm. Copyright 1999–2001.

  27. Register, 272.
    CHAPTER 6

    1. Alan Shepperd,Sandhurst: The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and its Predecessors(London:
      Country Life Books, 1980), 84, 92–3. The cadets at Sandhurst were so keen on riflery
      during the 1880s that they purchased their own ammunition to supplement that



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