THE VICTORIA CROSS AWARDED TO ADMIRAL SIR NOWELL SALMON, ROYAL NAVY ( NAVAL BRIGADE ), HAS BEEN PURCHASED BY THE LORD ASHCROFT VC COLLECTION.
10 November 2010


( select to enlarge )		 Medal entitlement of Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon,
Royal Navy ( Naval Brigade )

  • Victoria Cross
  • Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath ( GCB )
  • Baltic Medal ( 1854-55 )
  • Indian Mutiny Medal ( 1857-58 )
    • 2 clasps:
    • "Relief of Lucknow" - "Lucknow"
  • Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Medal ( 1897 )
  • King Edward VII Coronation Medal ( 1902 )
  • King George V Coronation Medal ( 1911 )

The Victoria Cross, Orders, decorations and campaign medals awarded to Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon, have been sold at auction by Spink of London. The auction took place on Thursday, 22nd July 2010 and the sale of the VC realised a hammer price of £190,000. The VC was purchased by the Michael Ashcroft Trust, the holding institution for Lord Ashcroft's VC collection.

On this specific day, the 16th November 1857, seventeen Victoria Crosses were awarded; six to the 93rd Regiment; four, Royal Navy ( Naval Brigade ); three, 53rd Regiment; two, 90th Regiment; and one each to the Madras Fusiliers and Bengal Fusiliers.

For the award of the Victoria Cross

[ London Gazette, 24 December 1858 ], Shah Najaf Mosque, Lucknow, Indian Mutiny, 16 November 1857, Lieutenant Nowell Salmon, Royal Navy ( Naval Brigade ).

For conspicuous gallantry at Lucknow, on the 16th of November 1857, in climbing up a tree, touching the angle of the Shah Nujjiff, to reply to the fire of the enemy, for which most dangerous service, the late Captain Peel KCB, had called for volunteers.

Nowell Salmon was invested with his Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace on the 8th June 1859

Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon died on the 14th February 1912 in his 77th year and was buried in St Peter's Churchyard, Curdridge, Hampshire.

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Iain Stewart, 10 November 2010