Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/23205/pages/84. Private Samuel Hodge, 4th West India Regiment. On 30th June 1866 at Tubabecelong, near the River Gambia, West Africa, at the storming and capture of the stockaded town, Private Hodge and another man, who was afterwards killed, volunteered to hew down the stockade. After the colonel had effected an entrance Private Hodge followed him through the town, opening with his axe two barricaded gates and so allowing the support troops to enter. On reaching the other side of town Private Hodge was acclaimed as the bravest man in the regiment, but he was very severely wounded.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/23205/pages/84. Private Samuel Hodge, 4th West India Regiment. On 30th June 1866 at Tubabecelong, near the River Gambia, West Africa, at the storming and capture of the stockaded town, Private Hodge and another man, who was afterwards killed, volunteered to hew down the stockade. After the colonel had effected an entrance Private Hodge followed him through the town, opening with his axe two barricaded gates and so allowing the support troops to enter. On reaching the other side of town Private Hodge was acclaimed as the bravest man in the regiment, but he was very severely wounded.