Acting Assistant Commissary James Langley Dalton VC
Acting Assistant Commissary James Langley Dalton (formerly a Staff-Sergeant in the Army Service Corps). He was born in London in December 1832 and died in Port Elizabeth, South Africa on 8th January 1887. His medals are on display at The Royal Logistics Corps Museum.
Account of deed: On 22 January 1879 at Rorke's Drift, Natal, South Africa, Acting Assistant Commissary Dalton actively superintended the work of defence and was amongst the foremost of those who received the first attack at the corner of the hospital, where the deadliness of fire checked the mad rush of the enemy. He saved the life of a man in the Army Hospital Corps by shooting the Zulu who was attacking him. Although wounded himself this officer continued to give the same example of cool courage throughout the action.
Account of Deed taken from 'The Register of the Victoria Cross', published by This England.
Victoria Cross Reference Web Site - James Langley Dalton
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