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coBspiouous gallantry, m conjunct 1with Lieuts. Home and Salkeld, in the pi- •« ■* j -* blowingthe Cashmere Gate of the fortress of Delhi in broad daylight, nnder a heavy and destructiveSifire of musketry, on the morning of the 14thSept. 1857, preparatory to the assault.(General Order of Maj.-Gen. Sir Archdale Wil-AprilpleasAdariCourson, Dart., K.C.B., dated Head-quarters, Delhi ]ateTi F. BthreeCity, Sept. 21, 1857.)SIX c52nd Regt. — Bugler Robert Hawthorne; j iatedate of act of bravery, 14th Sept. 1857.— j admi“ Bugler Hawthorne, who accompanied the explosion party, not only performed the dangerous duty on which he was employed, but previously attached himself to Lieut. Salkeld, ofhave40/.F. Fthe engineers, when dangerously wounded,wasSibound up his wounds under a heavy musketry j, f uraj fire, and had him removed without further j ^Q cinjury.”—(General Order of Maj.-Gen. Sir Arch-! ^1C dale Wilson, Bart., ICC.Ik, dated J i.ead-quar-1 ^ ^tersl Delhi City, Sept. 21, 1857.) ( . j rain€52nd Regt.—Lance Corporal Henry Smith ; i rdate of act of bravery, 14th Sept. 1857.— j f0]. {“ Lance Corporal Smith most gallantly carried j pj1(J away a wounded comrade under a heavy fire of j ^en.-grape and musketry on the Chaundee Chouck, in the city of Delhi, on the morning of the p-p0llassault on the 14th Sept. 1857.”—(General ^Order of Maj.-Gen. Sir Archdale Wilson, Bart.,reveICC.B., dated Ilead-qnarters, Delhi City, Sept. I eci14,321, 1857.)Bengal Horse Artillery.—Serg. Bernard Dia- Jmond, and Gunner Richard Fitzgerald; date of m gqact of bravery, 28th Sept. 1857.—“ For an act |of valour performed in action against the rebels and mutineers at Boolnndsliur, on tbe 28thSept. 1857, when these two soldiers evinced the most determined bravery in working theirMinaltogun under a very heavy fire of musketry, whereby they cleared the road of the enemy, after every other man belonging to it bad been either killed or disabled by wounds.”—(Despatch of Maj. Turner, B.H.A., dated Boolund-netmatthatlastTbeanshur, 2nd Oct. 1857.)j n cuforfor
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