{{Short description|Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=September 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox military person | name = Bernard Diamond | honorific_suffix = | birth_date = {{birth date text|January 1827}} | death_date = {{death-date and age|24 January 1892|January 1827}} | birth_place = Portglenone, County Antrim | death_place = Masterton, New Zealand | burial_place = Masterton Cemetery | image = Bernard and Mary Diamond.jpg | image_size = | caption = | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | service_years = | rank = Sergeant | branch = Bengal Army | commands = | unit = Bengal Horse Artillery | battles = {{plainlist| * Second Anglo-Sikh War * Indian Mutiny }} | awards = Victoria Cross | other_work = }} thumb|right|Bernard Diamond's grave site in Masterton
'''Bernard Diamond''' VC (January 1827 – 24 January 1892) in Portglenone, County Antrim, Ireland was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
==Details== He was approximately 30 years old, and a sergeant in the Bengal Horse Artillery, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 28 September 1857 at Bolandshahr, India for which he and Gunner Richard Fitzgerald was awarded the Victoria Cross: {{blockquote|For an act of valour performed in action against the rebels and mutineers at Boolundshur, on the 28th September, 1857, when these two soldiers evinced the most determined bravery in working their gun under a very heavy fire of musketry, whereby they cleared the road of the enemy, after every other man belonging to it had been either killed or disabled by wounds. (Despatch of Major Turner, Bengal Horse Artillery, dated Boolundshur, 2 October 1857.)<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/22131/pages/2051 London Gazette]</ref>}}
==Further information== He died in Masterton, New Zealand on 24 January 1892<ref>{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18920125.2.25 | title=Death of a veteran | date=25 January 1892 | work=The Sun | accessdate=20 January 2016 | page=3}}</ref> after emigrating, and was buried at the Archer Street Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mstn.govt.nz/services/cemetery/index.php?record=000584 |title=Cemetery search |date= |website= |publisher=Masterton District Council |accessdate=20 January 2016}}</ref>
==The medal== His Victoria Cross is displayed at the QEII Army Memorial Museum in Waiouru, New Zealand.
==References== {{Reflist}} <!-- '''Listed in order of publication year ''' --> * ''The Register of the Victoria Cross'' (1981, 1988 and 1997) * {{cite journal|first=Brian D. H.|last=Clarke|title=A register of awards to Irish-born officers and men|journal=The Irish Sword|volume=XVI|issue=64|pages=185–287|year=1986}} * ''Ireland's VCs'' (Dept of Economic Development, 1995) * ''Monuments to Courage'' (David Harvey, 1999) * ''Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross'' (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000)
==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} * [http://www.derryjournal.com/ballymena-heritage/Bernard-Diamond--Portglenone39s-VC.3195691.jp DerryJournal:Bernard Diamond – Portglenone's VC winner]
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