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Pro Gloria Patriae: bodies of officers killed in the Indian Frontier Campaign..., 1898. Creator: Samuel Begg.

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Pro Gloria Patriae: bodies of officers killed in the Indian Frontier Campaign taken down country for burial under escort of Bengal Lancers, 1898. Indian troops of the British Army. 'The Afridi tribes have not yet submitted to the British Indian Government. Only a small number of rifles have been surrendered, a tenth part of those demanded by the terms of peace, and but a twentieth part of the money fine has been paid. In the Khyber Pass, near Lundi Kotal, military detachments have been fired upon so lately as Sunday last. Lieutenant Hamilton, R.A., was badly wounded. Lieutenant C. R. Tonge, R.E., has been killed at Chura. A special force, commanded by Sir Bindon Blood, is to be sent against the Bonerwals. Active operations in Tirah and the Kurram Pass westward cannot be resumed during the present severity of the winter; but the enemy feels this as well as the British and Indian troops, especially since many villages have been destroyed...It is the pertinacious worrying action of guerilla skirmishing parties of the enemy in the Khyber Pass which still gives much trouble. Even at Ali Musjid, since New Year's Day, pickets have been fired upon, and several officers have been wounded'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.

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HRM26A14_264

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52.8Mo (4.4Mo) / 42.5cm x 31.1cm / 5017 x 3678 (300dpi)

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