Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22248/pages/1483. Ensign (now Lieutenant) Patrick Roddy, Bengal Army. On 27th September 1858 on the return from Kuthirga, India of the Kupperthula Contingent, Ensign Roddy, who was serving with that force, charged an armed rebel whom the cavalry was afraid to approach, as each time they moved the rebel knelt, covering the horseman nearest him. This, however, did not deter Ensign Roddy, who went boldly in, and although his horse was shot under him and the rebel tried to cut him down the ensign seized and killed him with his sword.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22248/pages/1483. Ensign (now Lieutenant) Patrick Roddy, Bengal Army. On 27th September 1858 on the return from Kuthirga, India of the Kupperthula Contingent, Ensign Roddy, who was serving with that force, charged an armed rebel whom the cavalry was afraid to approach, as each time they moved the rebel knelt, covering the horseman nearest him. This, however, did not deter Ensign Roddy, who went boldly in, and although his horse was shot under him and the rebel tried to cut him down the ensign seized and killed him with his sword.