{{Short description|English recipient of the Victoria Cross}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Use British English|date=August 2012}} {{Infobox military person | name = Joel Holmes | birth_date = c. 1821 | death_date = {{death date and age|1872|07|27|1821|df=y}} | birth_place = Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire | death_place = Halifax | burial_place = All Souls Cemetery, Halifax | image = Victoria Cross Medal without Bar.png | image_size = 125 | caption = | nickname = | allegiance = {{UK}} | service_years = | rank = Private | branch = 23px British Army | commands = | unit = 84th Regiment of Foot | battles = Indian Mutiny | awards = Victoria Cross | other_work = | relations = }}
'''Joel Holmes''' VC (c. 1821 – 27 July 1872) was an English 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 about 36 years old, and a private in the 84th Regiment (later The 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 25 September 1857 at Lucknow, India for which he was awarded the VC.
<blockquote> Private Joel Holmes<br />For distinguished conduct in volunteering to assist in working a gun of Captain Maude's Battery, under heavy fire, from which gun nearly all the artillerymen had been shot away. (Extract from Field Force Orders of the late Major-General Havelock, dated 17 October 1857.)<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22154|page=2958|date=18 June 1858}}</ref> </blockquote>
==The medal== His Victoria Cross is displayed at The York & Lancaster Regiment Museum at Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110514041055/http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/stewart/yorkshir.htm Location of grave and VC medal] ''(West Yorkshire)''
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