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Memorial plaque, Lisburn, William James Lendrim VC (1 January 1830 – 28 November 1891)

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Lendrim"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Lendrim[/url] [url="http://lisburn.com/archives/info/news-2009/VC-heroes-are-remembered.html"]http://lisburn.com/archives/info/news-2009/VC-heroes-are-remembered.html[/url] [url="http://www.derryjournal.com/news/local-news/vc-hero-honoured-by-lisburn-wasn-t-from-the-city-after-all-1-1643830"]http://www.derryjournal.com/news/local-news/vc-hero-honoured-by-lisburn-wasn-t-from-the-city-after-all-1-1643830[/url] "On 14 February 1855 during the Siege of Sevastopol, Crimea, Corporal Lendrim superintended 150 French Chasseurs in building No. 9 Battery left attack and replacing the whole of the capsized gabions under a heavy fire. On 11 April he got on top of a magazine under fire, and extinguished burning sandbags, making good the breach. On 20 April he was one of four volunteers who destroyed the screen which the Russians had erected to conceal their advance rifle-pits."

Memorial plaque, Lisburn, William James Lendrim VC (1 January 1830 – 28 November 1891)
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