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Assistant Surgeon Manley was born at Dublin, Ireland, on 17 December 1831, and was 32 years old, and an Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, British Army, during the Waikato-Hauhau Maori War, New Zealand, when the action for which he was awarded The Victoria Cross took place.
"On 29 April 1864 near Tauranga, New Zealand, during the assault on the rebel Pa, Assistant Surgeon Manley risked his own life in an endeavour to save that of a naval officer and others. Having volunteered to accompany the storming party into the Pa, he attended the naval officer when he was carried away mortally wounded and then volunteered to return in order to see if he could find any more wounded. He was one of the last officers to leave the Pa."
Assistant Surgeon Manley later achieved the rank of Surgeon General.
He died at Cheltenham, England, on 16 November 1901, and is buried at the Cheltenham Cemetery, Cheltenham, England.
His Victoria Cross is not publicly held.
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