VCs won during the Indian Mutiny

 

The 1st Battalion (72nd Foot) won one VC during the Indian Mutiny, that being by Lieutenant Aylmer Spicer Cameron at Kotah in 1858. His award was won by leading a small party against a house of rebels, killing three in single combat, although he was severely wounded in the incident. He later commanded the King's Own Scottish Borderers and became Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1886.

However, the 2nd Battalion (78th Foot) won eight such awards during the Indian Mutiny campaign, six of them for acts of gallantry at Lucknow. They were Lieutenant Andrew Cathcart Bogle, Lieutenant Joseph Petrus Hendrick Crowe, Lieutenant Herbert Taylor MacPherson, Surgeon Joseph Jee, Assistant-Surgeon Valentine Munbee McMaster, Private Henry Ward, Colour-Sergeant Stewart MacPherson and Private John Hollowell. Quite an achievement.