Victoria Cross file, Lt Charles George Baker, Bengal Police Battalion, 1858.
Associated with the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859).
From a collection of 596 files relating to Victoria Cross recipients between 1855 and 1967, compiled by the Rev Canon William Murrell Lummis MC, Rural Dean of Hingham, Norfolk, retired Captain, Suffolk Regiment.


Charles George Baker (1830-1906) won the Victoria Cross on 27 September 1858 at Suhejnee, near Peroo in Bengal during the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859). He was in command of a mixed party of cavalry and mounted police (about 120 strong) which attacked and put to flight a force of about 100 mutineers.