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[http://books.google.com/books?id=w1IBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA35 ''The Victoria Cross; an official chronicle of the deeds of personal valour achieved in presence of the enemy during the Crimean and Baltic campaigns, the Indian mutinies, and the Persia, China, and New Zealand wars'' (1865)] and also page 154, "Awarded Victorian Cross August 13, 1861. Indian Medical Establishment—Hospital Apprentice Arthur Fitzgibbon."
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===Arthur Fitzgibbon===
''Medals of the British army, and how they were won'' By Thomas Carter Published by Groombridge, 1861, states:
:"The youngest [[Victoria Cross|VC ]] recipient is generally regarded as Hospital Apprentice Arthur Fitzgibbon (15 years and 3 months), Indian Medical Establishment."
The following information, collected from various sources, some of which give conflicting personal details, include his citation in The London Gazette (issue 22538 dated 13 Aug 1861, published 13 Aug 1861) for the action in the [[2nd China War ]] of 1860. He was in the Bengal SMD.
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|ARTHUR FITZGIBBON
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|Hospital Apprentice, Indian Medical Establishment; attached [[67th Regimentof Foot|67th Regiment]]
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|Born: 13 May 1845, Gujarat, India Died: 7 March 1883, Delhi, India
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|Citation: For having behaved with great coolness and courage at the capture of the [[ battle of Taku Forts 1860|North Taku Fort ]] [near Tientsin, China], on the 21st of August, 1860. On the morning of that day he accompanied a wing of the 67th Regiment, when it took up a position within 500 yards of the Fort. Having quitted cover, he proceeded, under a very heavy fire, to attend to a Dhoolie-bearer, whose wound he had been directed to bind up; and, while the Regiment was advancing under the Enemy's fire, he ran across the open to attend to another wounded man, in doing which he was himself severely wounded.
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|The [http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/ Wellcome Library] (London) has some documents, including his baptism in 1845 at [[Almorah]] (NW India) under the name Andrew Fitzgibbon.
