Temple was 30 years old and an
Assistant Surgeon in the
Royal Regiment of Artillery during the
Invasion of Waikato (one of the campaigns in the
New Zealand Wars), when the following deed took place on 20 November 1863 at
Rangiriri, New Zealand for which he and Lieutenant
Arthur Frederick Pickard were awarded the VC: From 1884 until 1889 he served in India as a lieutenant colonel and secretary to the
surgeon-general of the
Indian Medical Service. On 10 April 1885 he became brigade surgeon and from 1886 until 1889 was honorary surgeon to the
Viceroy of India. Temple died in
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and is buried in the Highland Road Cemetery in
Portsmouth, Hampshire. ==References==