3-082-935 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Lieut.-General Sir C. C. Fraser, V.C., 1895. Engraving from a photograph. 'A gallant officer died on June 7 in Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Craufurd Fraser, K.C.B. The son of a distinguished soldier, he, like his two brothers, adopted a military career. For his courageous rescue of some men who were in imminent danger of drowning in the Kaptee [sic] River, Fraser won the Victoria Cross. Subsequent incidents in his career fully sustained the reputation early gained by him for bravery. He was at the Siege of Lucknow and took part in the Abyssinian War. He was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cambridge for seven years, and then became Inspector-General of Cavalry. He won North Lambeth for the Conservative party in 1886...He...was sixty-five when he died in his London home, which was crowded with mementoes of his travels'. "For conspicuous and cool gallantry, on the 31st December, 1858, in having volunteered, at great personal risk, and under a sharp fire of musketry, to swim to the rescue of Captain Stisted, and some men of the 7th Hussars, who were in imminent danger of being drowned in the River Raptee". The West Rapti River is also known as the Kuwano, and as the Karnali in Nepal, is a major left bank tributary of the Ganges in India. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.