Herbert Reade, V.C. Memorial Plaque

HERBERT TAYLOR READE. V.C.
1828 - 1897

Born in Perth, Upper Canada, and educated in Quebec and
Ireland, Reade became an assistant surgeon with the 61st
(South Gloucestershire) Regiment in 1850. On September
14, 1857, at the siege of Delhi during the Indian Mutiny, a
number of British wounded were threatened by some 300
Sepoys. Reade led a small party of soldiers against the
attackers and drove them off. Two days later he was in the
forefront of the final assault on Delhi and, for his
gallantry on both occasions, was awarded the Victoria
Cross. He later returned to England, rising by 1886 to
the rank of surgeon-general and, two years before his
death, was made honorary surgeon to Queen Victoria.

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