NAM.1982-05-65-1

Manuscript transcripts of documents and letters relating to the careers of Lt Duncan Charles Home VC, Bengal Engineers, particularly relating to his Indian Mutiny service, but also including later related correspondence of 1872-1899. Including copies of letters to his mother, letters describing his death and orders and reports on the blowing-in of the Cashmire Gate at Delhi for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Includes Sketch of the career of Lieutenant Duncan Charles Home, and supporting material compiled by his brother, Colonel Frederick Jervis Home (1839-1919). Also contains letters to Colonel Home from Sir Edward T. Thackeray in 1899, concerning Thackeray’s forthcoming book ‘Biographical Notices of Officers of the Royal (Bengal) Engineers’ (1900), in which Lieutenant Home’s VC action is featured. Associated with the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859).

Indian Mutiny (1857-1859)