2-710-888 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Devotion of General Roberts's Sikh Orderly at Spingawi', (1901). Incident during the Afghan Wars: 'on my being hit in the hand by a spent bullet, and turning to look round in the direction it came from, I beheld one of the Sikhs' [Dhyan Singh his notable name] 'standing with his arms stretched out trying to screen me from the enemy, which he could easily do, for he was a grand specimen of a man, head and shoulders taller than myself'. Account by British major general Sir Frederick, 1st Earl Roberts (1832-1914) of an event that occurred c1878 on the border between Afghanistan and India (now Pakistan). After a work made late 19th-early 20th century. From "The Life and Deeds of Earl Roberts, Vol. II. - To The Abdication of Yakub Khan", by J. Maclaren Cobban. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1901]