Victoria Cross: June 18, 1855, deed by Lieutenant Gerald Graham, Royal Engineers, and Sapper John Perie. The pair showed determined gallantry at the head of a ladder party at the assault on the Redan at Sebastopol. Lieutenat Graham also went out on numerous occasions to bring in wounded officers and men. Perie volunteered to go with the lieutenant to help bring in a wounded sailor lying in the open, even though he was himself suffering from a musket wound in the side.
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