THE VICTORIA CROSS AND CAMPAIGN MEDALS AWARDED TO SERGEANT JOSEPH BRENNAN, ROYAL ARTILLERY, HAVE BEEN ACQUIRIED BY THE LORD ASHCROFT VC COLLECTION.
16 August 2023


Medal entitlement of Sergeant Joseph Brennan
Royal Regiment of Artillery ( Hyderabad Contingent 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 ( Hyderabad Contingent Artillery ), have been acquiried by the Lord Ashcroft VC Collection.

The Brennan Victoria Cross group had previously been sold by C.J. & A.J. Dixon of Bridlington, East Yorkshire, in 2008. The sale hammer price was estimated at £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 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.


Joseph 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, 16 Auguste 2023