Victoria Cross file, Edward St John Daniel, Royal Navy, 1854-1855.
Associated with the Crimean War, Siege of Sevastopol (1854-1856) 1854-1855.
He was the first of eight men to be stripped of his Victoria Cross after being convicted of desertion and evading court martial.
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.