3-052-472 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Brigadier-General J. A. Tytler, V.C., C.B., 1880. 'The death of Brigadier-General John Adam Tytler, from disease contracted by the exposure and hardships of two successive winter campaigns on the Afghan frontier, is not less honourable than if he had been killed on the battle-field...Tytler entered the Indian Army in 1844, in the 66th Bengal Native Infantry, and served with the force under Sir Colin Campbell against the hill tribes on the Peshawur frontier...The Indian Mutiny campaign of 1857-9 provided him ample employment, taking a prominent part in many of the engagements...He was shot through the left arm, received a spear wound in the chest, and had a ball through the right sleeve of his coat. It was for this intrepidity in action that lie received the Victoria Cross...It was Captain Tytler, V.C., who raised the 4th Regiment of Goorkhas, and trained and disciplined them into one of the smartest and best-shooting regiments in our Indian Army...On the outbreak of the Afghan war it was inevitable that Colonel Tytler's services would secure for him a brigade command...He twice led his brigade into the Afreedi hills in order to chastise some of that turbulent clan who were harassing convoys in the neighbourhood of the Khyber...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.