Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps
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Awards | Victoria Cross |
Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps VC (28 May 1835 – 17 September 1857) 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.
Details
After attending
On the desertion of the Bengal Infantry, he then joined the
Ensign Phillipps was awarded the Victoria Cross fifty years after his death. His citation reads:
London Gazette, 21st October, 1859. "Ensign Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps, of the 11th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, would have been recommended to Her Majesty for the decoration of the Victoria Cross, had he survived, for many gallant deeds which he performed during the Siege of Delhi, during which he was wounded three times. At the assault of that city he captured the Water Bastion with a small party of men, and was finally killed in the streets of Delhi on the 18th of September."[1]
His VC is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum, London.
References
- ^ "No. 27986". The London Gazette. 15 January 1907. p. 325.