Stephen Garvin VC
Name: Stephen Garvin
Conflict: Indian Mutiny
Gazetted: January 20, 1860
Service: Army
Stephen Garvin VC
Medal group
Place/date of birth: Cashel, Co Tipperary, Ireland/1825
Rank when awarded VC (and later highest rank): Colour Sergeant (later Sergeant Major)
Date of bravery: June 23, 1857
London Gazette citation:
For daring and gallant conduct before Delhi on the 23rd of June, 1857, in volunteering to lead a small party of men, under a heavy fire, to the “Sammy House,” for the purpose of dislodging a number of the Enemy in position there, who kept up a destructive fire on the advanced battery of heavy guns, in which, after a sharp contest, he succeeded. Also recommended for gallant conduct throughout the operations before Delhi.
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Other decorations: DCM
Place/date of death: Chesterton, Cambridgeshire/November 23, 1874
Grave/memorials: St Andrew’s Church, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire
Origin of VC to the Lord Ashcroft collection: Purchased at auction, Dix Noonan Webb, London, 2014
Current location of VC: Displayed on rotation at The Lord Ashcroft Gallery: Extraordinary Heroes exhibition, Imperial War Museum