3-071-116 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Surgeon-Major E. B. Hartley, V.C., Cape Mounted Rifles, 1881. 'The Queen has conferred the decoration of the Victoria Cross upon Surgeon-Major Edmund Baron Hartley, Cape Mounted Riflemen, for conspicuous gallantry displayed by him in attending the wounded under fire at the unsuccessful attack on Moirosi's Mountain, in Basutoland, on June 5, 1879. The official account sets forth his having "proceeded into the open ground under a heavy fire and carried in his arms from an exposed position, Corporal A. Jones, of the Cape Mounted Riflemen, who was wounded. While conducting him to a place of safety the corporal was again wounded. The Surgeon-Major then returned under the severe fire of the enemy in order to dress the wounds of other men of the storming party." This gallant member of the Army Medical Service, whose portrait we have engraved, is the eldest son of Dr. Hartley, of Warwick-square, S.W., and son-in-law to Mr. W. W. Aldridge, of Bedford-row'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.