VC Action: Charles Anderson (1827, Liverpool—19 April 1899) was about 32 years old, and a private in the 2nd Queen's Dragoon Guards during the Indian Mutiny when the action for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross took place.
On 8 October 1858 near Sundeela Oudh, India, a group of mutineers (30 to 40 in number) opened fire on the officer commanding the regiment and his party, and then rushed upon them with drawn swords. In the fighting which ensued the colonel was cut down, and Private Anderson and a trumpeter Thomas Monaghan immediately came to his rescue, shooting one of the assailants and driving at others with their swords, thus enabling the colonel to rise and defend himself again, until the enemy were dispatched.
He later achieved the rank of Corporal. |
