Victoria Cross, contemporary copy, suspension bar engraved, ‘G. Hinckley’, reverse centre engraved, ‘Oct. 9th 1862’, with short and fragmentary blue ribbon, very fine £100-150

Able Seaman George Hinckley, Royal Navy, of H.M.S. Sphinx, was awarded the Victoria Cross (London Gazette 6 February 1863) for his great bravery at Fung Wha, China, on 9 October 1862, when he went out under heavy and continuous fire to rescue the wounded assistant master of the Sphinx. He then carried to safety a wounded army captain.