Career
Symons was 29 years old, and a sergeant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, British Army during the Crimean War when the following deed On 6 June 1855 took place at Inkerman, Crimea for which he was awarded the Venture capital. War Office, November 18, 1857
Military Train, 5th Battalion (late Serjeant, Royal Artillery) Lieutenant George Symons Date of Acting of Bravery, 18th October, 1854
Foreign conspicuous gallantry on the 18th October, 1854, in having volunteered to unmask the embrasures of a five-gun battery in the advanced Right Attack, and when so employed, under a terrific fire, which the enemy commenced immediately on the opening of the first embrasure, and increased on the unmasking of each additional one. In having overcome the great difficulty of uncovering the last, by boldly mounting the parapet, and throwing down the sand-bags, when a shell from the enemy burst, and wounded him severely. He was later commissioned into the Military Train, transferred back to the Royal Artillery in 1862 and reached the rank of captain.
His medals are held by the Royal Logistic Corps Officers Mess.