1. Herbert Taylor Reade
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Herbert Taylor Reade
14 May 1832 - 5 April 1890 (aged 57)
Surgeon General Reade's grave
Place of birth
Perth, Ontario, Upper
Canada
Place of death Bath, Somerset, England
Resting place Locksbrook Cemetery, Bath
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Rank Surgeon General
Unit 61st Regiment of Foot
Battles/wars Indian Mutiny
Awards
Victoria Cross
Companion of the Order of
the Bath

2. Herbert Taylor Reade VC CB (2 September 1828, Perth, Upper Canada - 23 June
1897, Bath), was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the
He was 28 years old, and a Surgeon in the 61st Regiment (later The
Gloucestershire Regiment), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the
following deeds took place during the Siege of Delhi for which he was
awarded the VC:
61st Regiment, Surgeon Herbert Taylor Reade Date of Acts of Bravery, September 14th
and 16th, 1857
During the siege of Delhi, on the 14th of September, 1857, while Surgeon Reade was
attending to the wounded, at the end of one of the streets of the city, a party of rebels
advanced from the direction of
the Bank, and having
established themselves in the
houses in the street,
commenced firing from the
roofs. The wounded were thus
in very great danger, and would
have fallen into the hands of the
enemy, had not Surgeon Reade
drawn his sword, and calling
upon the few soldiers who were
near to follow, succeeded,
under a very heavy fire, in dislodging the rebels from their position. Surgeon Reade's party
consisted of about ten in all, of whom two were killed, and five or six wounded.
Surgeon Reade also accompanied the regiment at the assault of Delhi, and, on the
morning of the 16th Septem
Plaque in Ontario, Canada

3. ber, 1857, was one of the first up at the breach in the magazine, which was stormed by the
61st Regiment and Belooch Battalion, upon which occasion he, with a serjeant of the 61st
Reg iment, spiked one of the enemy's guns.
He later achieved the rank of Surgeon General. Reade is buried at
Locksbrook Cemetery, Bath, Somerset, England. His headstone
in located in section FJ, Grave 864.
His Victoria Cross is displayed at The Soldiers of
Gloucestershire Museum (Gloucester, Gloucestershire,
England).