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After a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, poor health forced the 47-year-old Crimean War hero to retire to Weston where he settled with his wife in Claremont Crescent.
His determination, courage and devotion to duty wading alone through several miles of swampy coastland to reconnoitre enemy batteries on the Arabat Spit in 1855, thereby saving many British lives, earned him the Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest award for gallantry.
He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1875.
Plaque on the Anchor Head Hotel, Claremont Crescent. BS23 2ED
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