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VC from Indian Mutiny likely to go Down Under.
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January 21, 2008
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A VICTORIA Cross awarded during the Indian Mutiny in the 19th century is probably heading for Australia after being put up for sale for [pounds sterling]99,000 by a Bridlington trader.
The highest military honour was given to Sgt Joseph Brennan "for marked gallantry at the assault of Jhansi on 3 April 1858, in bringing up two guns of the Hyderabad Contingent, manned by natives, laying each under a heavy fire from the walls and directing them so accurately as to compel the enemy to abandon his Battery".
Brennan, who was born near Truro in Cornwall in 1836, joined the Royal ...
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