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The late Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, V.C., M.P., 1898. Creator: Unknown.

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The late Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, V.C., M.P., 1898. 'On Thursday last week, the last day but one of the Old Year, Sir Henry Havelock-Allan lost his life on the Indian Frontier, whither he had gone as an observer of our war on the Afridis...Sir Henry, though over sixty-seven years of age, had extraordinary physical vigour; and his impetuosity...led him to leave his escort and to ride alone where the presence of the enemy was only too plainly made apparent. Sir Henry did not return, and a search-party was sent out. His dead body and that of his horse were soon found, and he received from our troops all the military honours that could be accorded to him as a distinguished officer - the bravest in the British Army, Lord Wolseley once called him - a Victoria Cross man, and his gallant father's gallant son. The eldest son of General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B. - his mother being the daughter of a Baptist missionary - he was born at Chinsurah in 1830. Before he was sixteen he entered as Ensign the 39th Regiment of Foot. After various and honourable experiences in India, including service through the Mutiny War as his father's aide-de-camp, and the winning of the Victoria Cross at Cawnpore, he was made a Brevet Major in 1858'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.

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