Samuel Wassall
Award published in London Gazette 17th June 1879
The Victoria Cross
Private WASSALL
80th Regiment
For his gallant conduct in having, at the imminent risk of his own life, saved that of Private Westwood, of the same regiment.
On the 22nd January, 1879, when the Camp at Isandhlwana was taken by the enemy, Private Wassall retreated towards the Buffalo River, in which he saw a comrade struggling, and apparently drowning. He rode to the bank, dismounted, leaving his horse on the Zulu side, rescued the man from the stream, and again mounted his horse, dragging Private Westwood across the river under a heavy shower of Bullets.
Award published in The London Gazette dated 17th June, 1879.