Francis Cornwallis Maude

Colonel Francis Cornwallis Maude VC CB (28 October 1828 – 19 October 1900) 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.

Francis Cornwallis Maude
Francis Maude VC (right)
Born28 October 1828
London, England
Died19 October 1900 (aged 71)
Windsor, Berkshire
Buried
Windsor Borough Cemetery
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankColonel
UnitRoyal Artillery
Battles/warsIndian Mutiny
Awards Victoria Cross
Order of the Bath
RelationsF. F. Maude VC (cousin)
Other workConsul-General at Warsaw

Details

Maude was 28 years old, and a captain in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 25 September 1857 at Lucknow, India for which he was awarded the 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.)

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76 (Maude's) Battery Royal Artillery, the current name for what was his unit at the time, was awarded his name as their title in honour of both his and the units deeds during the battle.[2]

He later achieved the rank of colonel and was appointed Consul-General in Warsaw.[3] He was the cousin of Lieutenant Colonel F. F. Maude VC.

Works
  • Memories of the mutiny (1894)
  • Five years in Madagascar, with notes on the military situation (1895)
  • Bacon or Shakspere? : enquiries as to the authorship of the plays of Shakespeare (1895)

References
  1. "No. 22154". The London Gazette. 18 June 1858. p. 2957.
  3. London Gazette
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