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‘How Captain W E Gordon (Gordon Highlanders) won his Victoria Cross’, cigarette card, 1900 (c)
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Accession Number

NAM.1988-03-20-5

Description

‘How Captain W E Gordon (Gordon Highlanders) won his Victoria Cross’, 1900. Cigarette card published by Morris and Sons Limited, from a set entitled, ‘Boer War, 1900’, celebrating recipients of the Victoria Cross of the Boer War (1899-1902), 1900 (c). Captain (later Colonel) William Eagleson Gordon (1866-1941) served in the Tirah campaign on the North West Frontier of India in 1897. Gordon served as adjutant for the 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders during the Boer War (1899-1902). He was wounded at Magersfontein on 11 December 1899. Gordon was awarded the Victoria Cross for his gallantry during an action near Krugersdorp on 11 July 1900, where, under heavy enemy fire, he led an attempt to save a field gun. Associated with Boer War (1899-1902).

Campaigns

Boer War (1899-1902)