2-982-055 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Major G. N. Channer, V.C., 1876. British army officer who '...has obtained a Brevet-Major's rank, and the Victoria Cross decoration conferred by her Majesty, for his conduct in the recent expedition against the Malays of Perak..."Major Channer got completely in rear of the enemy's position, and, finding himself so close that he could hear the voices of the men inside, who were cooking at the time and keeping no look out, he beckoned to his men and stole quietly forward to within a few paces of the stockade. On jumping in he shot the first man dead with his revolver...The officer commanding reports that if Major Channer, by his foresight, coolness, and intrepidity, had not taken this stockade, a great loss of life must have occurred, as, from the fact of his being unable to bring guns to bear on it from the steepness of the hill and the density of the jungle, it must have been taken at the point of the bayonet".' From "Illustrated London News", 1876.