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Portrait photograph of Cpl James Smith VC, 1st Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) and an unidentified soldier. Cpl James Smith won the Victoria Cross for his gallantry at the village of Bilot on the night 16th-17th Sep 1897 during the Mohmand Campaign in the North West Frontier of India. On the reverse is a photograph of a VC parade at Kamptee, India 1899. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.

India, North West Frontier, Malakand Field Force (1897-1898)

Bilot, Action at, 1897 (India, North West Frontier, Mohmand Expedition 1897)