THE VICTORIA CROSS AND CAMPAIGN MEDALS AWARDED TO SERGEANT JOSEPH BRENNAN, ROYAL ARTILLERY, AN INDIAN MUTINY AWARD, HAVE BEEN SOLD.
22 January 2008


Medal entitlement of Sergeant Joseph Brennan,
Royal Regiment of Artillery

  • Victoria Cross
  • Indian Mutiny Medal ( 1857-58 )
    • 1 clasp:
    • "Central India"
  • India General Service Medal ( 1854-95 )
    • 1 clasp:
    • "Bhootan"


The Victoria Cross and campaign medals awarded to Sergeant Joseph Brennan, Royal Artillery, have been sold by the medal dealers C.J. & A.J. Dixon of Bridlington, East Yorkshire. ( The estimate for the group was £99,000 ). The purchaser was a private collector based in South Australia.


For the award of the Victoria Cross

[ London Gazette, 11 November 1859 ], Jhansi Fort, Indian Mutiny, 3 April 1858, Bombardier Joseph Charles Brennan, Royal Regiment of Artillery.

For marked gallantry at the assault of Jhansi, on the 3rd of April 1858, in bringing up two guns of the Hyderabad Contingent, manned by Natives, lying each under a heavy fire from the walls, and directing them so accurately as to compel the Enemy to abandon his battery.

Joseph Brennan was invested with his Victoria Cross in Gwalior, India, on the 20th April 1860.


In 1870 Joseph Brennan married Mary Eliza Broomfield the daughter of a Royal Artillery Pensioner and they had two children, Alexander Charles Augustus born in 1871 and Margaret Elizabeth born in 1872. Sergeant Brennan died of Pneumonia at Shorncliffe Camp, Folkstone, Kent, on the 24th September 1872, and was buried in the Shorncliffe Military Cemetery.

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Iain Stewart, 22 January 2008