The Chitral Expedition - 14th Ferozepur Sikhs
The 14th Ferozepur Sikhs, with Lieutenant Cheyne, Captain C. R. Ross, Major Sawyer and Captain Gordon. A detachment of the regiment, led by Captain Ross (son of General Ross who raised the regiment in 1857), were travelling from Gilgit to Chitral in modern-day Pakistan when they were attacked by tribesmen (outnumbering them by ten times), and fifty of them were killed by rocks hurled at them
Picture No
11963514
Media ID
46183889
Size
7908px x 6536px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph supplied by Captain Lovett in The Illustrated London News, 13 April 1895
Date
1895
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