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| Picture No | 11963514 |
| Date | 1895 |
| Description | The Chitral Expedition - 14th Ferozepur Sikhs |
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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.
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| Source | Photograph supplied by Captain Lovett in The Illustrated London News, 13 April 1895 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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