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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{about||the English politician|Ross Donnelly Mangles}}<br />
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{{Infobox military person<br />
|name= Ross Lowis Mangles<br />
|birth_date=14 April 1833 <br />
|death_date=28 February 1905 (aged 77)<br />
|birth_place= [[Calcutta]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_place=[[Pirbright]], [[Surrey]]<br />
|placeofburial=[[Brookwood Cemetery]]<br />
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'''Ross Lowis Mangles''' [[Victoria Cross|VC]] (14 April 1833 – 28 February 1905) was a 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. Mangles is one of only five civilians to be awarded the VC.<br />
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==Details==<br />
Mangles was the son of [[Ross Donnelly Mangles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/content/mangles-collection|title=Mangles collection, Surrey Archaeological Society|access-date=12 June 2016}}</ref> He was educated at [[Windlesham House School]], [[Brighton]] (1842–43),<ref>{{Cite book|title=Muster Roll. Windlesham House, Brighton. A.D. 1837 to 1902.|last=Malden|first=Henry C.|publisher=H. & C. Treacher|year=1902|edition=2nd|location=Brighton}}</ref> [[King Edward's School, Bath|Bath Grammar School]] and [[Haileybury and Imperial Service College|East India Company College]] (1851–52).<ref>Entry in the 'Writers' petitions' archival sub-series, British Library, Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections (ref. J/1/80/153-161).</ref> He took up a place in the Bengal Civil Service in 1853.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044105333728;view=1up;seq=5|title=East-India register and army list. 1857.|website=HathiTrust|access-date=2018-12-18}}</ref> He was 24 years old, and a [[civilian]] in the [[Bengal Civil Service]] during the [[Indian Mutiny]] when the following deed took place at [[Siege of Arrah|Arrah]] for which he was awarded the VC:<br />
{{quote|Mr. Ross Lowis Mangles, of the Bengal Civil Service, Assistant Magistrate at Patna<br />
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Date of Act of Bravery, 30th July, 1857<br />
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Mr. Mangles volunteered and served with the Force, consisting of detachments of Her Majesty's 10th and 37th Regiments, and some Native Troops, despatched to the relief of Arrah, in July, 1857, under the Command of Captain Dunbar, of the 10th Regiment. The Force fell into an Ambuscade on the night of the 29th of July, 1857, and, during the retreat on the next morning, Mr. Mangles, with signal gallantry and generous self-devotion, and notwithstanding that he had himself been previously wounded, carried for several miles, out of action, a wounded soldier of Her Majesty's 37th Regiment, after binding up his wounds under a murderous fire, which killed or wounded almost the whole detachment and he bore him in safety to the boats.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22283|page=2629|date=8 July 1859}}</ref>}}<br />
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His Victoria Cross is displayed at the [[National Army Museum]], [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]], England.<br />
[[File:Ross Mangles VC Grave.jpg|thumb|right|The grave of Ross Mangles VC in [[Brookwood Cemetery]]]]<br />
He is buried in [[Brookwood Cemetery]]. On the north wall of St Michael and All Angels Church, [[Pirbright]] is a brass memorial to Mangles. The oaks on the plaque represent England, his native land; the palms are for India, scene of his life's work; his passion for growing roses after his retirement is also commemorated.<ref>Julia Douëtil [http://www.pirbrightchurch.org.uk/cms/uploads/documents/church_history.doc Welcome to St Michael and All Angels Church, Pirbright] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006052338/http://www.pirbrightchurch.org.uk/cms/uploads/documents/church_history.doc |date=6 October 2011 }}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041028141357/http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/stewart/brookwoo.htm Location of grave and VC medal] ''(Brookwood Cemetery)''<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061011061025/http://www.tbcs.org.uk/vcs.htm The Brookwood Cemetery Society] ''(Known holders of the Victoria Cross commemorated in Brookwood Cemetery)''<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081226053739/http://www.tbcs.org.uk/mangles.htm Ross L. Mangles VC]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006052338/http://www.pirbrightchurch.org.uk/cms/uploads/documents/church_history.doc Welcome to St Michael and All Angels Church, Pirbright]<br />
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