Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross Recipient. He received the award for his actions as a lieutenant with the 4th Bengal Native Infantry, Bengal Army, on March 1, 1858, near Amethi, British India, during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. The son of a British officer, he joined the British Bengal Army and saw action at the Battle of Sobraon during the First Anglo-Sikh War, followed by the Second Anglo-Sikh War, and then the Indian Mutiny of 1857. It was the latter conflict where his courage and valor won him the Victoria Cross. He then returned to England and retired at the rank of colonel and in May 1865 he was appointed a member of The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Queen's official bodyguard. He died at the age of 60. His Victoria Cross citation reads: "This Officer, Commanding the 3rd Sikh Cavalry on the advanced Picquet, with one hundred of his men, having obtained information, just as the Force marched on the morning of the 1st of March last, of the proximity, three miles off the high road, of a body of 500 Rebel Infantry, 200 Horse, and 2 Guns, under Moosahib All Ctiuckbdar, attacked and utterly routed them, cutting up more than 100 men, capturing two guns, and driving the survivors into, and over, the Goomtee. This feat was performed under every disadvantage of broken ground, and partially under the flanking fire of an adjoining Fort. Lieutenant Aikman received a severe sabre cut in the face in a personal encounter with several of the enemy."
Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross Recipient. He received the award for his actions as a lieutenant with the 4th Bengal Native Infantry, Bengal Army, on March 1, 1858, near Amethi, British India, during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. The son of a British officer, he joined the British Bengal Army and saw action at the Battle of Sobraon during the First Anglo-Sikh War, followed by the Second Anglo-Sikh War, and then the Indian Mutiny of 1857. It was the latter conflict where his courage and valor won him the Victoria Cross. He then returned to England and retired at the rank of colonel and in May 1865 he was appointed a member of The Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Queen's official bodyguard. He died at the age of 60. His Victoria Cross citation reads: "This Officer, Commanding the 3rd Sikh Cavalry on the advanced Picquet, with one hundred of his men, having obtained information, just as the Force marched on the morning of the 1st of March last, of the proximity, three miles off the high road, of a body of 500 Rebel Infantry, 200 Horse, and 2 Guns, under Moosahib All Ctiuckbdar, attacked and utterly routed them, cutting up more than 100 men, capturing two guns, and driving the survivors into, and over, the Goomtee. This feat was performed under every disadvantage of broken ground, and partially under the flanking fire of an adjoining Fort. Lieutenant Aikman received a severe sabre cut in the face in a personal encounter with several of the enemy."
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