Cavagnari, Pierre Louis Napoleon [cenotaph] d. September 3, 1879 British Army Officer, Colonial Official. A Major in the British Army,he was Deputy Commissioner at Peshawar, India, during the Second Afghan War of 1879. He negotiated the Treaty of Gandamak that ended the first part of that war, and was then placed in command of a British Residency in Kabul, Afghanistan. Along with most of the members of this mission, he was killed in action while defending the Residency from mutinous Afghans. His body was consumed in a fire that burned the Residency building...[Read More] Mardan Post, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Maclean, Hector Lachlan Stewart b. September 13, 1870 d. August 17, 1897 Tirah Campaign Victoria Cross Medal Recipient. He served as a Lieutenant on the Staff Corps of Guides , Indian Army. At Nawa Kili, in Upper Swat, India, August 17, 1897, Lieutenant Maclean with two other officers and five men of the Lancashire Fusiliers came under heavy enemy fire. Lieutenant Maclean rushed forward to the rescue on of the officers lying disabled by a bullet wound and surrounded by enemy swordsmen. While he was taking the wounded officer to cover he was killed and Lieutenant...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Guides Cemetery, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Meynell, Godfrey b. May 20, 1904 d. September 29, 1935 Second Mohmand Campaign Victoria Cross Medal Recipient. He served as a Captain in the Queen's Own Corps of Guides, Indian Army. On September 29, 1935, at the Nahaqi Pass, India, in the final phase of an attack, Captain Meynell's troops were in a struggle against an enemy vastly superior in numbers. He took command of about thirty men, maintained a heavy and accurate fire on the advancing enemy, whose overwhelming numbers nevertheless succeeded in reaching their position. In the hand-to-hand...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Guides Cemetery, Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
d. September 3, 1879