Art Resource - AR9486210

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'The Gordon Highlanders. How Piper Findlater won the V.C. at Dargai', 1897, (1939). The Storming of the Dargai Heights by the 1st Gordon Highlanders and the Gurkhas, 1897. Fighting between British troops and Afridi tribesmen on the North-West Frontier (a province of British India and later of Pakistan) on 20 October 1897, 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 Battles for the Flag, a set of cards given away with British boys' comic The Wizard. [D. C. Thomson & Co., Dundee, 1939]

Unique Identifier AR9486210

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 6512px × 4117px

Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY

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