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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Recipient of the Victoria Cross}}<br />
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{{Infobox military person<br />
|name=Miles Ryan<br />
|birth_date=1826<br />
|death_date= January 1887 (aged 60)<br />
|birth_place=[[Derry]], [[County Londonderry]]<br />
|death_place=[[Bengal]], [[British India]]<br />
|placeofburial=<br />
|image=Victoria Cross Medal without Bar.png<br />
|image_size=125<br />
|caption=<br />
|nickname=<br />
|allegiance= {{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}<br />
|serviceyears= 1848 - 1859<br />
|rank=[[Drummer]]<br />
|branch=[[Bengal Army]]<br />
|commands= <br />
|unit=[[1st Bengal European Fusiliers]]<br />
|battles=[[Indian Mutiny]]<br />
|awards= [[Victoria Cross]]<br />
|laterwork=<br />
}}<br />
'''Miles Ryan''' [[Victoria Cross|VC]] (1826 – January 1887) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]], the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] forces.<br />
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Ryan was about 31 years old, and a drummer in the [[1st Bengal European Fusiliers]] during the [[Indian Mutiny]] when the following deed took place for which he and [[James McGuire (VC)|James McGuire]] were awarded the VC.<br />
{{quote|Serjeant J. McGuire, Drummer M. Ryan<br><br />
Date of Act of Bravery, 14th September, 1857<br><br />
At the assault on Delhi on the 14th September, 1857, when the Brigade had reached the Cabul Gate, the 1st Fusiliers and 75th Regiment, and some Sikhs, were waiting for orders, and some of the Regiments were getting ammunition served out (three boxes of which exploded from some cause not clearly known, and two others were in a state of ignition), when Serjeant<br />
McGuire and Drummer Ryan rushed into the burning mass, and, seizing the boxes,<br />
threw them, one after the other, over the parapet into the water. The confusion consequent on the explosion was very great, and the crowd of soldiers and native followers, who did not know where the danger lay, were rushing into certain destruction, when Serjeant McGuire and Drummer Ryan, by their coolness and personal daring, saved the lives of many at the risk of their own.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22212|page=5519|date=24 December 1858}}</ref>}}<br />
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He died in [[Bengal]], [[British India]] in January 1887.<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
*''[[The Register of the Victoria Cross]]'' (1981, 1988 and 1997)<br />
*{{cite journal|first=Brian D. H.|last=Clarke|title=A register of awards to Irish-born officers and men|journal=[[The Irish Sword]]|volume=XVI|issue=64|pages=185–287|year=1986}}<br />
*''[[Ireland's VCs]]'' {{ISBN|1-899243-00-3}} (Dept of Economic Development, 1995)<br />
*''[[Monuments to Courage]]'' (David Harvey, 1999)<br />
*''[[Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross]]'' (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000)<br />
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