Career
He was 22 years old, and an assistant surgeon in the 1st Battalion, 7th Regiment of Foot (later The Royal Fusiliers), British Army at Sebastopol in the Crimean War when the following deeds took place for which he was awarded the Venture capital. First. Foreign 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 West. Hope and Doctor Hale. And for endeavouring to rally the men, in conjunction with Lieutenant West. Hope, 7th Royal Fusiliers.
Secondly.
Foreign 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.