Henry Curtis VC (21 December,
1822 – 23 November,
1896) was an English
recipient of
the Victoria Cross, the highest and
most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that
can be awarded to British
and Commonwealth forces.
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Curtis was 32 years old, and a
Boatswain's Mate in the
Royal Navy, (
Naval
Brigade) during the
Crimean War when
the following deed took place for which he was awarded the
VC.
On
18 June 1855, in the
Crimea
, immediately after the assault on Sebastopol, a
soldier of the 57th Regiment, who had been wounded in both legs,
was observed sitting up and calling for help. At once the
second-in-command of the scaling party (
Henry James Raby), another seaman (
John Taylor) and Boatswain's Mate Curtis
left the shelter of their battery works and ran forward a distance
of 70 yards, across open ground, through heavy gunfire and
succeeded in carrying the wounded man to safety.
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