James Mouat
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox military person Surgeon General Sir James Mouat Template:Post-nominals (14 April 1815 – 4 January 1899) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Details
Mouat was 39 years old, and a Surgeon in the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, British Army, during the Crimean War when the following deed took place on 26 October 1854 in the Crimea, at Balaklava, for which he was awarded the VC.
Surgeon Mouat went with Corporal Charles Wooden to the assistance of an officer who was lying seriously wounded in an exposed position, after the retreat of the Light Cavalry. He dressed the officer's wounds under heavy fire from the enemy, and by stopping a severe haemorrhage, helped to save his life.
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The medal
His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Army Medical Services Museum in Mytchett, Surrey.
Family
Mouat married, in 1859, Adela-Rose-Ellen, daughter of Rev Nicholas Tindal, rector of Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, and granddaughter of Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1829 to 1845.<ref>Burke's Landed Gentry (1863): 'Tindal of Chelmsford'.</ref>
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- British recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Crimean War recipients of the Victoria Cross
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- Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
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- British military personnel of the New Zealand Wars
- Knights of the Legion of Honour
- English surgeons
- People from Chatham, Kent
- 1815 births
- 1899 deaths
- Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery
- British Army regimental surgeons
- 44th Regiment of Foot officers
- King's Own Royal Regiment officers
- Royal Norfolk Regiment officers
- British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Military personnel from Kent