It was for his actions in this battle where Prussian forces won a decisive victory over the numerically superior French army that he was awarded the Iron Cross.

[1] After demobilization in 1871 he returned to the family business in Woolwich and assisted with the building of furnaces for use in steel foundries and crematoria.

[3] His first inaugural address was an analysis of the Electric Lighting Acts of 1882 and 1888, his second advocating a wider use of the metric system.

Later in 1881 Siemens Brothers took over a project to provide the world's first public electricity supply in Godalming, Surrey.

[5] In retirement he lived at Westover Hall,[6] Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire, where he died, from heart failure, on 16 February 1928.