Lot 78
The Taie Paie War Victoria Cross
"Behind The Wire" - Medal and Militaria Sale | M25001
Auction: 17 September 2025 at 14:00 BST
Description
A late Victorian, Early 20th Century Copy Victoria Cross attributed to Able Seaman George Hinckley, H.M.S. Sphinx the reverse engraved (G. Hinckley) the centre of the Reverse (Oct 9th 1862), very fine (1)
Victoria Cross The London Gazette, 6 February 1863
Fung-Wha, China, 9 October 1862, Able Seaman George Hinckley, Royal Navy ( Naval Brigade ).
For volunteering while under the East Gate of the city of Fung-Wha, to carry to a joss house, a hundred and fifty yards distant, under a heavy and continuous fire of musketry, gingalls and stink-pots, Mr Coker, Master's Assistant of the "Sphinx", who had been wounded in the advance to the gate; in which object Hinckley succeeded. On his return to the gate, under a similar fire, he again volunteered and succeeded in carrying to the joss-house Mr Bremer, an officer of Ward's force, who had also been wounded in the advance on the gate; and he again returned to his post under the gate.
George Hinckley was invested with his Victoria Cross by CinC Plymouth, Admiral Houston Stewart, at Devonport on the 7th July 1863.
This particular VC was sold by A.H. Baldwin & Sons in the 1920s and comes with a Baldwin’s Packet and handwritten account of the action, it has not been on the open market since the 1920’s.
