Victoria Cross
Victoria Cross

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Headstones -
- Carisbrooke Mount Joy Cemetery : Sir Henry Tombs VC -

Location

In Mount Joy Cemetery, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Private headstone. Section B Plot 113.
Headstone

Carisbrooke Mount Joy Cemetery : Sir Henry Tombs VC
 
Carisbrooke Mount Joy Cemetery : Sir Henry Tombs VC
 
Inscription



details awaited



 
Further Information

On 9 July 1857 at the Siege of Delhi, India, Major Tombs twice went to the rescue of one of his junior officers (HILLS, J.). On the first occasion one of the enemy was about to kill the young officer with his own sword when Major Tombs rushed in and shot the man. A second attack on the subaltern resulted in his being cut down with a sword wound to the head, and he would undoubtedly have been killed if Major Tombs had not put his sword through the assailant.

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