* In 1859 it was announced in the London Gazette that had Phillipps lived he would have been awarded the Victoria Cross for leading the storming party that took the Water Bastion on 14 September. This unusual practice – known as the ‘Memorandum Procedure’ – was repeated only five more times during the nineteenth century (and only once during the mutiny itself). In 1907 King Edward VII ordered VCs to be given to the families of the six men.