2-716-564 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Indian Frontier War, 1897: The Storming of the Dargai Ridge by the Gordon Highlanders, October 20', (1901). Fighting between British troops and Afridi tribesmen on the North-West Frontier (a province of British India and later of Pakistan), during the Tirah Campaign. Four Victoria Crosses were awarded after the action. One of the recipients was piper George Findlater who continued to play to encourage his battalion's advance, despite having been wounded. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]