Colour Sergeant Stephen Garvin

1st Battalion The 60th Rifles

Born: 2 February 1826 - Cashel, Co Tipperary, Ireland.

Died: 23 November 1874, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire.

Buried: Chesterton Parish Church.

Enlisted: 06 July 1842.

Service: 23 years.

CITATION

For daring and gallant conduct before Delhi on 23rd 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.

Gazetted: 20 January 1860.
Investiture: 09 November 1860, Windsor Home Park by Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Other Decorations: DCM
Other Medals: India (Punjab) 1848/9 clasps Mooltan and Goojerat. Indian General Service Medal with clasp NW Frontier. Indian Mutiny with clasp Delhi. LS & GC.
Location of Medals: Not publicly held.
Commemoration: Headstone.

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