NAM.1959-09-234-1

One of two photographs of watercolours of attack in Malakand, with Lord Fincastle and Adams, both Corps of Guides, winning the Victoria Cross, 1896. The citation for the two men’s Victoria Crosses in the London Gazette on 9th November 1897 reads: “During the fighting at Nawa Kili, in Upper Swat, on the 17th August, 1897, Lieutenant-Colonel R.B. Adams proceeded with Lieutenants H.L.S. MacLean and Viscount Fincastle, and five men of the Guides, under a very heavy and close fire, to the rescue of Lieutenant R.T. Greaves, Lancashire Fusiliers, who was lying disabled by a bullet wound and surrounded by the enemy's swordsmen. In bringing him under cover he (Lieutenant Greaves) was struck by a bullet and killed — Lieutenant MacLean was mortally wounded — whilst the horses of Lieutenant-Colonel Adams and Lieutenant Viscount Fincastle were shot, as well as two troop horses.”

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