Victoria Cross: June 18, 1855, Lieutenant Howard Craufurd Elphinstone, Royal Engineers. "On the night following the unsuccessful attack on the Redan, Lieutenant Elphinstone commanded a party of volunteers who searched for the scaling ladders left behind after the repulse. While performing this task he also conducted a search close to the enemy for wounded men, 20 of whom he rescued and took back to the trenches."
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