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{{Other people|Peter Gill}} | {{Other people|Peter Gill}} | ||
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{{Infobox military person | {{Infobox military person | ||
|name=Peter Gill | |name=Peter Gill | ||
|honorific_suffix= | |honorific_suffix= | ||
|birth_date={{birth | |birth_date={{birth date|1831|09||df-yes}} | ||
|death_date={{death | |death_date={{death date and age|df=y|1868|07|26|1831|09||}} | ||
|birth_place= [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]] | |birth_place= [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]] | ||
|death_place=[[Morar]], [[British India]] | |death_place=[[Morar]], [[British India]] | ||
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==Details== | ==Details== | ||
Gill was approximately 25 years old, and a [[sergeant-major]] in the [[15th Ludhiana Sikhs|Loodiana Regiment]], during the [[Indian Mutiny]] on 4 June 1857 at [[Benares]], [[India]] when he (and Sergeant-Major [[Matthew Rosamund]]) were awarded the Victoria Cross for the following deeds: | Gill was approximately 25 years old, and a [[sergeant-major]] in the [[15th Ludhiana Sikhs|Loodiana Regiment]], during the [[Indian Mutiny]] on 4 June 1857 at [[Benares]], [[India]] when he (and Sergeant-Major [[Matthew Rosamund]]) were awarded the Victoria Cross for the following deeds: | ||
{{ | {{blockquote|This Non-Commissioned Officer also conducted himself with gallantry at Benares, on the night of the 4th of June, 1857. He volunteered, with Serjeant-Major Rosamond, of the 37th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, to bring in Captain Brown, Pension Paymaster, and his family, from a detached Bungalow to the Barracks, as above recorded, and saved the life of the Quartermaster-Sergeant of the 25th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, in the early part of the evening, by cutting off the head of the Sepoy who had just bayonetted him. Serjeant-Major Gill states, that on the same night he faced a Guard of 27 men, with only a Serjeant's sword; and it is also represented that he twice saved the life of Major Barrett, 27th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, when attacked by Sepoys.}}<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22176|page=3903|date=24 August 1858}}</ref> | ||
Gill later achieved the rank of [[lieutenant]]. He was killed in action | Gill later achieved the rank of [[lieutenant]]. He was killed in action at Morar, [[Gwalior]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], India, on 26 July 1868. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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*''[[Monuments to Courage]]'' (David Harvey, 1999) | *''[[Monuments to Courage]]'' (David Harvey, 1999) | ||
*''[[Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross]]'' (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000) | *''[[Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross]]'' (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000) | ||
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gill, Peter}} | {{DEFAULTSORT:Gill, Peter}} | ||
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[[Category:19th-century Irish people]] | [[Category:19th-century Irish people]] | ||
[[Category:Irish soldiers in the British East India Company Army]] | [[Category:Irish soldiers in the British East India Company Army]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Military personnel from Dublin (city)]] | ||
[[Category:Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross]] | [[Category:Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross]] | ||
[[Category:Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross]] | [[Category:Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross]] | ||