Thomas Wilkinson
Bombardier, Royal Marine Artillery
- Rank
- Bombardier all Bombardiers →
- Unit
- Royal Marine Artillery all Royal Marine Artillery VCs →
- Date of action
- 7 June 1855 on this day → all of 1855 →
- Conflict / campaign
- Crimean War
From the archive — contributed material
Bombardier Thomas Wilkinson VC, Royal Marine Artillery (Sebastopol 1855) — Royal Marines Museum, Eastney
From Alf's last visit, Portsmouth, April 2005.
Bombardier Thomas Wilkinson VC — portrait in the Royal Marines Museum, Eastney 
The medals of Thomas Wilkinson displayed at the Royal Marines Museum
The medal group
The museum's label reads: Victoria Cross; LS & GC Medal (awarded as a Corporal for gallantry in the Crimea, under the warrant of 4 December 1854); Crimea Medal with bars Balaklava, Inkermann and Sebastopol; China Medal 1857–60 with bar Canton 1857; LS & GC Medal (as Colour Sergeant, 21 years); Sardinian Medal for Valour for the Crimea; Turkish Crimea Medal — the only group with two LS & GC medals.
Images and text reproduced by courtesy of the Askin family — photographs taken by Alf Askin and family at the Royal Marines Museum, Eastney, Portsmouth, April 2005. Added 2026.
Alf had not yet written up this recipient. He died in July 2005 before finishing the register, so the details above come from the public record (The London Gazette and Wikipedia's lists of VC recipients). Visit the links below for the full citation and biography.
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