File on Pte Valentine Bambrick, 60th Rifles, Victoria Cross winner, 1858
file, record
Accession Number

NAM.1974-07-83-461

Description

Victoria Cross file, Pte Valentine Bambrick, 60th Rifles, 1858. One of eight men whose Victoria Cross was forfeited. Bambrick committed suicide in Pentonville Prison, 1 April 1864. Associated with the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859). Bambrick was stripped of his medal after being convicted for assault and theft of medals. From a collection of 596 files relating to Victoria Cross recipients between 1855 and 1967, compiled by the Rev Canon William Murrell Lummis MC, Rural Dean of Hingham, Norfolk, retired Captain, Suffolk Regiment.

Campaigns

Indian Mutiny (1857-1859)

Associated collection