Lieutenant-General Sir James Hills-Johnes, V.C., G.C.B., Bengal Horse Artillery

Signed Carte de Visit by Maull & Fox, 187a Piccadilly, London, facing wearing uniform, wearing his Orders, Decorations, Medals and sword, 105 x 165mm., good condition £160-200

V.C. London Gazette 24 April 1858.

‘On 9 July 1857, at the siege of Delhi, India, Second Lieutenant Hiils most gallantly defended the position assigned to him when attacked by enemy cavalry. Single-handed he charged the head of the enemy’s column and fought fiercely - on foot after he and his horse had been ridden down. He was about to be killed with his own sword which one of the enemy had wrested from him, when his senior officer saw what was happening and twice in a short space of time came to the rescue of his subaltern (Ref. The Register of the Victoria Cross). The ‘senior officer’, Major Henry Tombs, was also awarded the Victoria Cross for this action.