Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Lindsay ya yi yaƙi a matsayin kyaftin a cikin 'yan tsaron Scotland (Fusilier) a lokacin yakin Crimea. An ba shi lambar yabo ta Victoria Cross don ayyukansa a ranar 20 ga Satumba 1854 a yakin Alma
da 5 Nuwamba a yakin Inkerman. The "London Gazette" ya bayyana ayyukansa kamar haka: