Background
He was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1827 and died in Bombay, India, in 1864.
He was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1827 and died in Bombay, India, in 1864.
On 8 September 1855 at Sebastopol, Crimea, near the Redan, Corporal Shields volunteered to go out with Assistant Surgeon William Henry Thomas Sylvester to an exposed and dangerous part of the front, to bring in an officer who was wounded, and was afterwards found to be mortally southern
