Thomas Reeves VC
From the original Victoria Cross Research website (2000–2006) by Alfred J. Askin. Reproduced as written; some details may have been superseded. See the original page.
REEVES, Thomas
- Seaman (Later Captain of the Foretop) Royal Navy (Naval Brigade)
- Gazetted: 24th February 1857
- Born in Portsmouth, Hants in 1828 (Actual date not known)
- Died on the 4th August 1862 at Portsea, Hants interred Portsea Island General Cemetery (later Mile End Gardens. Now P&O Channel Ferries Terminal Portsmouth, Hants.
Citation Reads: On the 5th of November 1854, at the Battle of Inkerman, Crimea, When the Right Lancaster Battery was attacked and many of the soldiers were wounded, Seaman Reeves, with two other Seamen* and two others, who were killed during the action, mounted the defence work banquette** and, under withering attack from the enemy, kept up a rapid repulsing fire. There muskets were re-loaded for them by the wounded solders under the parapet and eventually the enemy fell back and gave no more trouble. (*See GORMAN, J. and SCHOLEFIELD, M.)
**A raised step behind a rampart