During the fighting on 13th July a midshipman, Basil John Douglas Guy,
displayed great coolness and bravery in stopping with and attending to a
wounded seaman, under an excessively hot fire, eventually assisting to
carry him across a fire-swept force. When it is remembered what kind of
treatment the Chinese dealt out to all who fell into their hands, and
the brutalities of which they were guilty, the heroism of the above act
stands out all the more sharply and unmistakably. For the action thus
described in the _Gazette_ Mr Guy was awarded a Victoria Cross.