Colonel Francis Cornwallis Maude VC

Victoria Cross

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 CB

Order of the Bath

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 (28 October 1828 - 19 October 1900) was an English

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 recipient of the Victoria Cross

Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....

, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British

United Kingdom

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 and Commonwealth

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 forces.

Details

Maude was 28 years old, and a captain in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, British Army

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 during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 25 September 1857 at Lucknow

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, India

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 for which he was awarded the VC:
76 Battery, Royal Artillery is named Maude's Battery in his honour.

He later achieved the rank of colonel

Colonel

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 and was appointed Consul-General in Warsaw

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. He was the cousin of Lieutenant Colonel F. F. Maude VC.

External links

• Location of grave and VC medal (Berkshire)