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In the hundred years between the Battle of Waterloo and the start
of the Great War, Britain fought in just one European conflict -
the Crimean War of 1854-56. Towards the end of the war Queen
Victoria signed the Royal Warrant instigating the award of the
Victoria Cross, made retrospective to the start of the campaign. A
VC medal bears the proclamation 'For Valour', and, on Waterloo Day
1855, John Joseph Sims of the 34th Cumberland Regiment displayed
his gallantry during the first assault on the Great Redan. At the
inaugural investiture of the award in Hyde Park, he was one of the
youngest to have a VC pinned on his chest by the Queen. This is the
story of the boy from Bloomsbury who joined the 34th and went to
war. The author is an engineer living in Surrey.
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