The date of both actions are engraved on the reverse of his cross but only one cross was awarded. Grady was recommended for the VC a second time. The citation for VC reads, 'For having, on the 18th October 1954, Volunteered to repair the Embrazures of the Sailor's Battery on the left Attack, and effected the same, with the assistance of one other Volunteer, under a very heavy fire from a line of batteries' (London Gazette 23 June 1857). Grady was recommended for the VC by Captain Lushington, Royal Navy. He also received a second recommendation for the Victoria Cross on 22 November 1854 and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) in the Crimea, date and place unknown. Īs a Private he was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC) on 18 October 1854 for actions at Sailor's Battery at Sebastopol, Crimea. Grady emigrated to Australia as an assisted immigrant in 1865 and died near Melbourne on. He transferred to the 4th Regiment of Foot on 14 February 1854 serving with them until 21 September 1856 including service in the Crimean War. This regiment was then serving in New South Wales and Grady was probably intended as a reinforcement to fill the place of one of the many soldiers who elected to remain as a soldier settlers in the colony rather than return to Britain. Sergeant Thomas Grady, born Cheddah, Galway, Ireland on 18 September 1835, enlisted in the 99th Foot on 18 June 1853 serving with them until 13 February 1854.
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