3-053-601 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Colonel J. C. M'Neill, V.C., Second in Command of the Ashantee Expedition, 1873. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. W. Notman. 'Colonel M'Neill...was severely wounded in the conflict with the Ashantees at Essaman, near Elmina, on the 14th November, while serving as second in command on the Gold Coast under Sir Garnet Wolseley. This gallant officer was employed as Aide-de-Camp to Sir Edward Lugard in India during the campaign of 1857-8, and was present at the siege and capture of Lucknow...In 1861 he proceeded with Sir Duncan Cameron to New Zealand as the General's Aide-de-Camp, and served there till 1865. He was present at the engagements on the Katikara river, at the Koeroa, at Rangariri, at the Gate Pah, and in various other encounters with the natives. He...gained the Victoria Cross for saving the life of his orderly. Colonel M'Neill commanded the Tipperary flying column during the Fenian disturbances in the winter of 1866-7...He served as military secretary to Lord Lisgar during his term of office as Governor-General of Canada, and was employed on the staff of the Red River expedition, under Sir Garnet Wolseley, in 1870; for the latter he was created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.