NAM.1976-06-3-1

Victoria Cross, 1879. From a medal group awarded to Capt (later Gen Sir) O'Moore Creagh, Bombay Staff Corps, for his action at Kam Dakka, Afghanistan on 21st April 1879. Associated with the 2nd Afghan War, (1878-1880). On the evening of 21st April, Capt Creagh with two companies of his battalion, were detached from Daka to protect the village of Kam Daka, on the Cabul River, against a threatened incursion of the Mohmands. An attack the next morning, by an overwhelming number of Mohmands, meant that Capt Creagh had to retreat and take up position in a near-by cemetery, where he held his position against all the efforts of the enemy until the afternoon when the detachment was finally relieved. Creagh was born in Ireland on 2nd April 1848 and died in London on 9th August 1923.

2nd Afghan War (1878-1880)