Francis Cornwallis Maude VC

This officer steadily and cheerily pushed on with his men, and bore down the desperate opposition of the enemy, though with the loss of one-third of his Artillerymen. Sir James Outram adds, that this attack appeared to him to indicate no reckless or foolhardy daring, but the calm heroism of a true soldier, who fully appreciates the difficulties and dangers of the task he has undertaken; and that, but for Captain Maude’s nerve and coolness on this trying occasion, the Army could not have advanced. (Extract from Field Force Orders of the late Major- General Havelock, dated 17th October, 1857.) 

Extract from The London Gazette

Name:	Francis Cornwallis Maude VC CB
Born:	28 Oct 1828; London.
Died:	19 Oct 1900; Windsor.
Buried:	Windsor Cemetery
Unit:	3rd Company, 8th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Artillery
Date:	25 Sep 1857
Place:	The Advance to the Char Bagh Bridge, Lucknow, India
Rank:	Second Captain
Entry:	The London Gazette of 18 Jun 1858, Num. 22154, p. 2957
VC No:	170
Presented:	1858, India.
Displayed:	Not publicly held
References:	[59]
Connection:	Later years lived in Windsor Castle and is buried in Windsor Cemetery. Military Knight of Windsor 1895 – 1900. Lived in Windsor Castle and died inside Castle Grounds Buried in Windsor Cemetery. One of the roads in Windsor Cemetery is named after him. One of three VC recipients is named on the VC information board near the entrance to the cemetery.
Awards:	Victoria Cross Companion of the Order of the Bath
Notes:	In 1895, Maude was appointed a Military Knight of Windsor by Queen Victoria, a body reserved for retired officers who received a pension and accommodation at Windsor Castle.

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