The best friend of Lt Edward Jones Gt Gt uncle of TCJ , killed in Delhi in 1857.
From Wikipedia
Colonel Sir Edward Talbot Thackeray
VC,
KCB (19 October 1836 – 3 September 1927) was an
English recipient of the
Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to
British and
Commonwealth forces.
The son of Rev Francis Thackeray and Mary Anne Shakespeare, he was the first cousin of the novelist,
William Makepeace Thackeray.
Thackeray was 20 years old, and a
second lieutenant in the
Bengal Engineers,
Bengal Army during the
Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 16 September 1857 at
Delhi,
British India for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross
For cool intrepidity and characteristic daring in extinguishing a fire in the Delhi Magazine enclosure, on the 16th of September, 1857, under a close and heavy musketry fire from the enemy, at the imminent risk of his life from the explosion of combustible stores in the shed in which the fire occurred.[1]
He later achieved the rank of
colonel. Thackeray retired from the Army in 1888 and in 1898 he went to live in Italy were he spent the rest of his life.
His medal is currently displayed at the
National Museum of Military History in
Johannesburg,
South Africa.