Crimean War Victoria Cross Recipient. He received the award from British Queen Victoria on June 26, 1857 at Hyde Park in London, England for his actions as a corporal in the 23rd Regiment of Foot of the British Army on September 8, 1855 at the Siege of Sebastopol in the Crimean Peninsula during the Crimean War. He was born in Cardiff, Wales, England and following the Crimean War, he served in British India and died there in Bombay around the age of 37. His Victoria Cross citation reads: "On 8 September 1855 at Sebastopol, Crimea, near the Redan, Corporal Shields volunteered to go out with Assistant Surgeon William Henry Thomas Sylvester to an exposed and dangerous part of the front, to bring in an officer who was wounded, and was afterwards found to be mortally so."
Crimean War Victoria Cross Recipient. He received the award from British Queen Victoria on June 26, 1857 at Hyde Park in London, England for his actions as a corporal in the 23rd Regiment of Foot of the British Army on September 8, 1855 at the Siege of Sebastopol in the Crimean Peninsula during the Crimean War. He was born in Cardiff, Wales, England and following the Crimean War, he served in British India and died there in Bombay around the age of 37. His Victoria Cross citation reads: "On 8 September 1855 at Sebastopol, Crimea, near the Redan, Corporal Shields volunteered to go out with Assistant Surgeon William Henry Thomas Sylvester to an exposed and dangerous part of the front, to bring in an officer who was wounded, and was afterwards found to be mortally so."
Bio by: William Bjornstad
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