Photograph of Surgeon T. E. Hale
Object number
RFM.917
Object name
Photograph
Description
Framed photograph of Assistant Surgeon T. E. Hale, VC, CB. Hale joined the 1st Battalion, 7th Regiment of Foot, later the Royal Fusiliers on the 14th December 1854 as Assistant Surgeon aged 22. Shortly afterwards he was sent to the Crimea and in September 1854 won the Victoria Cross which was gazetted in the London Gazette on the 5th May 1857.
The citation reads:
"First. For remaining with an officer who was dangerously wounded, (Captain H.M. Jones, 7th Regiment), in the fifth parallel, on 8th September, 1855, when all the men in the immediate neighbourhood retreated, excepting Lieutenant W. Hope and Dr. Hale; and for endeavouring to rally the men, in conjunction with Lieutenant W. Hope, 7th Royal Fusiliers.
Secondly. For having, on 8th September, 1855, after the regiments had retired into the trenches, cleared the most advanced sap of the wounded, and carried, into the sap, under a heavy fire, several wounded men from the open ground, being assisted by Serjeant Charles Fisher, 7th Royal Fusiliers."
Associated Person
Assistant Surgeon Thomas Egerton Hale, VC, CB