Drummer Michael Magner VC – 33rd Regiment

3691 Drummer Michael Magner – 33rd Regiment
For conspicuous gallantry, in the assault of Magdala, on the 13th of April, 1869.
Lieutenant General Lord Napier reports that while the head of the column of attack was checked by the obstacles at the gate, a small stream of officers and men of the 33rd Regiment and an officer of engineers, breaking away from the approach to Magdala, and climbing up a cliff, reached the defences and forced their way over the wall and through the strong and thorny fence, thus turning the defenders of the gateway. The first two men to enter Magdala were Drummer Magner and Private Bergin of the 33rd Regiment.